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2016 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (South Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 15 South Dakota counties and 1821st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meade 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 | February 11, 2016 17:30 | February 11, 2016 18:15 | 45m | 8,299 | 6,224 |
| 2 | July 6, 2016 22:00 | July 6, 2016 23:15 | 1h 15m | 3,014 | 3,104 |
| 3 | September 16, 2016 06:45 | September 16, 2016 08:45 | 2h | 1,519 | 3,038 |
| 4 | May 29, 2016 20:00 | May 29, 2016 21:15 | 1h 15m | 148 | 185 |
| 5 | June 23, 2016 07:30 | June 23, 2016 08:00 | 30m | 141 | 71 |
| 6 | June 5, 2016 09:45 | June 5, 2016 10:15 | 30m | 91 | 46 |
| 7 | August 15, 2016 02:45 | August 15, 2016 03:30 | 45m | 85 | 24 |
| 8 | May 7, 2016 13:30 | May 7, 2016 14:30 | 1h | 82 | 82 |
| 9 | June 28, 2016 17:15 | June 28, 2016 17:30 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 10 | July 13, 2016 20:00 | July 13, 2016 20:30 | 30m | 65 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.42 | 36 min | 0.69 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 1.26 | 66 min | 0.46 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butte Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Faith - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,286 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. Meade County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county