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

Power outage history

Emmons County North Dakota

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

Worst outage on record Dec 15, 2022 8% of customers out · 90% back in 23 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 33hours Dec 15, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 36% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 3,111 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 Emmons's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Emmons, hours without power per customer

EmmonsUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 2 4 6 8 1.3 ’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
Dec 15, 2022 Winter storm 247 8% 33 h 23 h 5.1k
Jun 18, 2024 No storm report 651 21% 5.8 h 4.5 h 2.6k
Sep 23, 2020 No storm report 958 31% 2.2 h 2.2 h 2.0k
Jul 19, 2022 No storm report 691 22% 3.2 h 2.8 h 1.9k
Aug 8, 2025 Thunderstorms 231 7% 12 h 12 h 1.3k
Sep 30, 2020 No storm report 946 30% 1.2 h 1.2 h 1.2k
Jun 21, 2025 Thunderstorms 238 8% 4.5 h 9.2 h 1.1k
Apr 11, 2025 No storm report 232 7% 3.8 h 3.8 h 848
May 20, 2017 No storm report 264 8% 3.0 h 2.5 h 792
Jun 18, 2022 No storm report 423 14% 1.8 h 1.8 h 740
Jun 5, 2024 No storm report 237 8% 2.8 h 2.8 h 629
Dec 26, 2023 Ice storm 819 26% 48 min 48 min 614

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 Emmons from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 64%
  • Winter storm 21%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Ice storm 3.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Emmons

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
KEM Electric Coop Inc ND – – – 12.5 43k
Capital Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 56 33 0.40 13.5 20k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

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 3,111 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 →