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Who serves Grand Forks County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy, Nodak Electric Cooperative and Otter Tail Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Northwood 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Grand Forks County, ND
Last significant outage: Aug 20, 2026 — peaked at 1,642 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 20, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Grand Forks County, ND
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
144 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the North Dakota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~1.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,424 customers out in July 2018, restored after about 11.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
Cities we track in Grand Forks County
Communities in Grand Forks County include Larimore, Thompson, Northwood, Emerado, Manvel, Gilby, Niagara and Inkster. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
