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2016 Miner County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Miner County, SD went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 310 customer-hours (South Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 15 South Dakota counties and 2124th 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 Miner 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 5, 2016 20:15 | February 5, 2016 21:45 | 1h 30m | 136 | 103 |
| 2 | June 24, 2016 13:45 | June 24, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 81 | 142 |
| 3 | July 23, 2016 12:30 | July 23, 2016 15:45 | 3h 15m | 24 | 50 |
| 4 | September 5, 2016 15:30 | September 5, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | June 4, 2016 16:45 | June 4, 2016 17:45 | 1h | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | March 2, 2016 00:45 | March 2, 2016 02:45 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | April 5, 2016 18:00 | April 5, 2016 20:30 | 2h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | April 26, 2016 17:45 | April 26, 2016 18:00 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | May 19, 2016 12:45 | May 19, 2016 15:00 | 2h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | March 23, 2016 17:30 | March 23, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 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 Miner 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.69 | 2.3 hrs | 1.69 |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dakota Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Howard - (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 ÷ 1,069 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. Miner County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Miner 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/miner-county