Power Out Map
– 0% of Renville out 0 customers out in North Dakota

Power outage history

Renville 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 45% of customers out · 90% back in 6.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.1 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 24hours Apr 23, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 1,606 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Renville's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Renville, hours without power per customer

RenvilleUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 ND 2.1

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 716 45% 24 h 6.5 h 6.7k
Oct 5, 2024 Windstorm 854 53% 2.2 h 1.5 h 1.7k
Jul 4, 2020 No storm report 851 53% 2.5 h 2.5 h 1.6k
Jan 15, 2023 No storm report 699 44% 2.2 h 2.2 h 1.6k
Sep 26, 2023 No storm report 163 10% 8.0 h 8.0 h 1.3k
Aug 6, 2024 Thunderstorms 837 52% 1.5 h 1.2 h 1.2k
Jun 1, 2018 No storm report 572 36% 2.5 h 1.8 h 1.0k
Aug 4, 2020 No storm report 839 52% 2.0 h 1.2 h 983
Mar 29, 2021 Windstorm 175 11% 4.5 h 11 h 706
Jun 15, 2023 No storm report 262 16% 2.2 h 2.2 h 590
Sep 25, 2025 No storm report 156 10% 3.5 h 2.0 h 543
Jan 20, 2023 No storm report 713 44% 48 min 4.5 h 533

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Renville from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Winter storm 27%
  • Windstorm 10%
  • Thunderstorms 6.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Renville

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
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 575 132 2.03 11.1 45k
Verendrye Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 42 42 0.65 11.2 14k
North Central Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 60 60 – 10.9 6.1k
Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 8.6 1.8k

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

Across North Dakota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Dakota counties →

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 1,606 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 →