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

Power outage history

Kidder County North Dakota

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

Worst outage on record Jun 20, 2025 23% of customers out · 90% back in 38 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 39hours Jun 20, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 1,472 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 Kidder'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

Kidder, hours without power per customer

KidderUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 2 4 6 8 10 ’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
Jun 20, 2025 Thunderstorms 333 23% 39 h 38 h 10k
Aug 25, 2023 No storm report 624 42% 3.0 h 3.0 h 1.5k
Oct 8, 2021 No storm report 325 22% 5.0 h 3.5 h 1.4k
Jul 26, 2023 Thunderstorms 379 26% 3.0 h 3.0 h 1.1k
Nov 14, 2022 No storm report 417 28% 3.5 h 3.5 h 612
Jun 17, 2020 Thunderstorms 139 9% 4.0 h 4.0 h 556
May 19, 2025 No storm report 78 5% 6.2 h 6.2 h 488
Jul 8, 2020 No storm report 313 21% 1.8 h 1.2 h 402
Aug 5, 2019 No storm report 462 31% 3.2 h 2.8 h 387
Jan 1, 2021 No storm report 139 9% 3.0 h 1.0 h 386
Feb 4, 2024 No storm report 141 10% 2.8 h 2.8 h 382
Dec 4, 2024 No storm report 110 7% 3.2 h 3.2 h 358

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

  • Thunderstorms 55%
  • No storm on record 43%
  • Tornadoes 0.7%
  • Ice storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kidder

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
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 575 132 2.03 11.1 45k
KEM Electric Coop Inc ND – – – 12.5 43k
Capital Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 56 33 0.40 13.5 20k
Northern Plains Electric Coop Cooperative 371 188 1.43 10.9 10k
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 1,472 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 →