When will the power be back in Foster County, ND?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Foster County, ND right now.
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Elsewhere in North Dakota: 128 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:31 PM CDT.
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Who serves Foster County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Otter Tail Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Northern Plains Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Foster County, ND
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 474 customers, restored in ~42 min (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Foster County, ND
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
13 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the North Dakota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~1.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~1,148 customers out in January 2023, restored after about 1.3 hr.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Foster County include Carrington, Glenfield, McHenry, Grace City, Birtsell, Bordulac, Bucephalia and Eastman. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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