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

Power outage history

Steele 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 21, 2025 30% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
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% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.0days Jun 20, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 87% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 557 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 Steele'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

Steele, hours without power per customer

SteeleUS median countyNorth Dakota average
0 10 20 30 40 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’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 165 30% 4.0 d 3.1 d 15k
Dec 26, 2023 Ice storm 190 34% 2.6 d 15 h 9.9k
Jul 24, 2020 Heat 429 77% 2.2 h 2.2 h 965
Apr 19, 2022 No storm report 241 43% 4.0 h 4.0 h 847
Jun 7, 2020 Thunderstorms 244 44% 3.2 h 3.2 h 793
Dec 30, 2023 No storm report 190 34% 4.0 h 4.0 h 760
Jun 17, 2020 Thunderstorms 244 44% 2.2 h 2.2 h 549
Dec 15, 2023 No storm report 128 23% 2.5 h 2.5 h 320
Mar 7, 2025 No storm report 126 23% 2.2 h 2.2 h 284
Jul 23, 2020 No storm report 244 44% 1.2 h 1.2 h 218
Aug 27, 2025 No storm report 124 22% 1.5 h 1.5 h 186
Jun 28, 2024 No storm report 56 10% 2.8 h 2.8 h 149

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

  • Thunderstorms 52%
  • Ice storm 32%
  • No storm on record 13%
  • Heat 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Steele

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
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 575 132 2.03 11.1 45k
Nodak Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 321 104 5.40 12.7 21k
City of Hope ND – – – – 3.5k
City of Sharon ND – – – – 829
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 557 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 →