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

Power outage history

Stutsman County North Dakota

20hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

1st most of 13 in North Dakota 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 27, 2023 100% of customers out · 90% back in 29 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 2.1 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.5days Dec 26, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 86% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 2.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,427 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Stutsman's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Stutsman, hours without power per customer

StutsmanUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 20 40 60 80 ’16 ’17 0.4 ’18 ’19 ’20 1.4 ’21 5.2 ’22 56 ’23 3.0 ’24 52 ’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
Dec 26, 2023 Ice storm 8,427 100% 5.5 d 29 h 415k
Jun 20, 2025 Thunderstorms 8,427 100% 3.6 d 2.0 d 340k
Aug 8, 2025 Thunderstorms 8,427 100% 17 h 6.5 h 72k
Jun 21, 2022 No storm report 588 7% 47 h 24 h 27k
Jun 7, 2023 No storm report 8,427 100% 13 h 2.0 h 17k
Jun 24, 2023 No storm report 3,781 45% 3.5 h 5.0 h 9.7k
Jun 30, 2020 No storm report 7,934 94% 2.0 h 1.2 h 6.6k
Apr 25, 2024 No storm report 1,522 18% 6.5 h 3.2 h 6.3k
Jul 25, 2025 No storm report 1,036 12% 4.5 h 3.8 h 4.6k
Sep 8, 2023 No storm report 2,944 35% 2.2 h 1.2 h 4.0k
Jul 6, 2022 No storm report 253 3% 13 h – 3.3k
Sep 27, 2020 No storm report 2,535 30% 1.2 h 1.2 h 3.2k

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 +2h 90% by +2h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Thunderstorms 43%
  • Ice storm 43%
  • No storm on record 14%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Stutsman

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
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 575 132 2.03 11.1 45k
Northern Plains Electric Coop Cooperative 371 188 1.43 10.9 10k
Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 64 50 0.34 12.7 5.8k
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

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 8,427 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 →