When will the power be back in Williston, ND?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Williston is a city of about 28,821 residents in Williams County.
Montana-Dakota Utilities and Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative have reported outages for Williston by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Williston is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Williston:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Williston: the closest other places we track are Dickinson, about 98 miles to the southeast, and Bismarck, about 164 miles to the southeast.
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: east toward Fargo (331 mi); south toward Gillette, WY (285 mi); southwest toward Billings, MT (284 mi); and west toward Great Falls, MT (358 mi).
Who serves Williston?
We track live outage data from Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative, Montana-Dakota Utilities, Lower Yellowstone REA and Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative in Williams County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Sheridan Electric Cooperative also serves parts of Williams County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Williston's last tracked outage began Oct 3, peaked at 77 customers out, and was restored in 40 minutes. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 50 minutes.
- Oct 3 — 77 customers out, restored in 40 minutes
- Sep 24 — 36 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
- Sep 17 — 44 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
- Sep 7 — 31 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of Williams County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 4.3 hr. The full record for Williams County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Williston, ND?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Williston's own record: across the 6 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 50 minutes — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Williston, ND?
To check your own street, search a Williston ZIP code — 58801, 58802 or 58803 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Williston specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Williston we have the city-level view: Montana-Dakota Utilities and Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative have published outages for Williston under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Williston is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Williams County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Williston.
