When will the power be back in Richland County, ND?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Richland 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 Richland County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Otter Tail Power ↗, Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative, Cass County Electric Cooperative ↗ and South Dakota Rural Electric Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Richland County, ND
Last significant outage: Sep 17, 2026 — peaked at 235 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 9, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Richland County, ND
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
89 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1 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: ~4,237 customers out in June 2025, restored after about 48 min. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Richland County include Wahpeton, Hankinson, Lidgerwood, Wyndmere, Fairmount, Walcott, Abercrombie and Colfax. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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