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2016 Lincoln County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, SD went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 7,389 customer-hours (South Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 15 South Dakota counties and 2155th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 18, 2016 00:45 | June 18, 2016 19:30 | 18h 45m | 652 | 2,169 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 05:45 | July 17, 2016 21:15 | 15h 30m | 296 | 995 |
| 3 | September 5, 2016 06:30 | September 5, 2016 20:15 | 13h 45m | 289 | 386 |
| 4 | November 17, 2016 16:30 | November 17, 2016 18:45 | 2h 15m | 288 | 134 |
| 5 | July 5, 2016 18:15 | July 5, 2016 18:45 | 30m | 241 | 62 |
| 6 | July 19, 2016 10:45 | July 19, 2016 17:15 | 6h 30m | 165 | 172 |
| 7 | April 29, 2016 04:30 | April 29, 2016 08:00 | 3h 30m | 152 | 250 |
| 8 | June 10, 2016 04:00 | June 10, 2016 07:15 | 3h 15m | 113 | 99 |
| 9 | April 26, 2016 12:30 | April 26, 2016 20:00 | 7h 30m | 89 | 668 |
| 10 | September 13, 2016 14:45 | September 13, 2016 15:45 | 1h | 68 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lincoln County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.64 | 83 min | 0.90 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay-Union Electric Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Beresford | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of South Dakota's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 31,561 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln County, SD annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/south-dakota/lincoln-county