Power Out Map
– 0% of Burke out 0 customers out in North Dakota

Power outage history

Burke County North Dakota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Apr 24, 2022 48% of customers out · 90% back in 48 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.1 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.3days Apr 23, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 1,180 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Burke's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Burke, hours without power per customer

BurkeUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 5 10 15 20 6.3 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 ND 2.1

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 23, 2022 Winter storm 568 48% 2.3 d 48 h 19k
Mar 7, 2017 Winter storm 318 27% 27 h 6.2 h 3.5k
Apr 28, 2019 Winter storm 452 38% 13 h 8.0 h 3.3k
Mar 5, 2018 Winter storm 524 44% 3.0 h 3.0 h 1.5k
Jun 19, 2019 No storm report 171 14% 8.5 h 4.2 h 1.4k
Jan 14, 2021 Windstorm 431 37% 5.0 h 3.2 h 1.1k
Dec 25, 2019 No storm report 268 23% 5.5 h – 960
Feb 13, 2020 No storm report 634 54% 2.0 h 2.0 h 726
Apr 19, 2023 Flooding 168 14% 6.5 h 3.8 h 717
Nov 11, 2020 No storm report 707 60% 3.2 h 30 min 700
Sep 18, 2021 No storm report 162 14% 3.0 h 2.2 h 479
Jul 10, 2022 No storm report 435 37% 1.2 h 1.0 h 474

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Burke from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 65%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Windstorm 2.9%
  • Flooding 2.0%
  • Thunderstorms 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Burke

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Dakota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co Investor Owned 95 65 0.81 11.1 80k
Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop Cooperative 116 116 1.16 7.3 11k
Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 8.6 1.8k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Dakota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Dakota counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 1,180 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →