Power outages in North Dakota
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
5
customers reported out statewide · 4 counties reporting
Updated 7:18 AM CDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All North Dakota counties (53)
- Adams
- Barnes
- Benson
- Billings
- Bottineau
- Bowman
- Burke
- Burleigh
- Cass
- Cavalier
- Dickey
- Divide
- Dunn
- Eddy
- Emmons
- Foster
- Golden Valley
- Grand Forks
- Grant
- Griggs
- Hettinger
- Kidder
- LaMoure
- Logan
- McHenry
- McIntosh
- McKenzie
- McLean
- Mercer
- Morton
- Mountrail
- Nelson
- Oliver
- Pembina
- Pierce
- Ramsey
- Ransom
- Renville
- Richland
- Rolette
- Sargent
- Sheridan
- Sioux
- Slope
- Stark
- Steele
- Stutsman
- Towner
- Traill
- Walsh
- Ward
- Wells
- Williams
Utility coverage in North Dakota
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Montana-Dakota Utilities (MT/ND/SD/WY) · Otter Tail Power (MN/ND/SD) · Cass County Electric Cooperative (ND) · Nodak Electric Cooperative (ND) · Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative (ND) · Verendrye Electric Cooperative (ND) · Roughrider Electric Cooperative (ND) · Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative (ND) · McKenzie Electric Cooperative (ND) · McLean Electric Cooperative (ND) · Lower Yellowstone REA (MT) · Slope Electric Cooperative (ND) · +2 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving North Dakota.
Historical outage patterns in North Dakota
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 2,138 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in North Dakota between 2014 and 2025 for the 50 counties the federal record covers — 7 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 1.8 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (41% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2022.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~20,585 customers out in Cass County in September 2019, restored after about 23.3 hr.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: April 2022 (10 counties), June 2025 (9 counties) and July 2020 (9 counties).
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve North Dakota?
Electric utilities we track in North Dakota include Montana-Dakota Utilities, Xcel Energy, Otter Tail Power, Cass County Electric Cooperative and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.