Power outage history
Golden Valley County North Dakota
The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.
Worst outage on record Apr 24, 2022 53% of customers out · 90% back in 15 hoursEvery day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Golden Valley's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
Golden Valley, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 706 | 53% | 30 h | 15 h | 21k |
| Apr 23, 2018 | No storm report | 658 | 50% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 1.8k |
| Jul 10, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 344 | 26% | 11 h | 2.2 h | 1.7k |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Flooding | 644 | 49% | 2.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.4k |
| Jul 20, 2021 | No storm report | 614 | 46% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 1.1k |
| Jun 12, 2024 | No storm report | 631 | 48% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.1k |
| Jul 20, 2021 | No storm report | 601 | 45% | 1.0 h | 7.5 h | 600 |
| Apr 29, 2018 | No storm report | 656 | 50% | 48 min | 5.0 h | 492 |
| Sep 25, 2019 | No storm report | 57 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 377 |
| Mar 3, 2024 | No storm report | 653 | 49% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 351 |
| Aug 17, 2024 | No storm report | 93 | 7% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 302 |
| Jul 14, 2025 | No storm report | 95 | 7% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 214 |
| Jul 20, 2025 | No storm report | 82 | 6% | 4.5 h | 1.8 h | 176 |
| Jun 19, 2023 | No storm report | 57 | 4% | 2.2 h | – | 123 |
| Jul 8, 2021 | No storm report | 461 | 35% | 12 min | – | 115 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | No storm report | 57 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 112 |
| Dec 26, 2021 | No storm report | 71 | 5% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 106 |
| Apr 1, 2021 | No storm report | 61 | 5% | 1.0 h | – | 61 |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Windstorm | 67 | 5% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 60 |
| Jun 13, 2022 | No storm report | 53 | 4% | 1.0 h | – | 52 |
| Aug 24, 2021 | No storm report | 60 | 5% | 30 min | – | 30 |
| May 18, 2020 | No storm report | 55 | 4% | 30 min | – | 28 |
| Jan 2, 2018 | No storm report | 51 | 4% | 30 min | – | 19 |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Golden Valley from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 67%
- No storm on record 23%
- Thunderstorms 5.5%
- Flooding 4.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Golden Valley
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Dakota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | Investor Owned | 95 | 65 | 0.81 | 11.1 | 80k |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | Cooperative | – | – | – | 10.8 | 11k |
| Goldenwest Electric Coop, Inc | MT | – | – | – | – | 7.2k |
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 111 | 111 | 0.93 | 8.0 | 5.4k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- McKenzie 1.8 h
- Golden Valley (this county) – h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 1,324 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →