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2017 Lincoln County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, SD went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 6,924 customer-hours (South Dakota average 0.8 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 26 South Dakota counties and 2465th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 26, 2017 01:15 | April 26, 2017 02:00 | 45m | 1,646 | 421 |
| 2 | July 6, 2017 18:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 4h 30m | 406 | 818 |
| 3 | April 13, 2017 23:15 | April 14, 2017 00:30 | 1h 15m | 288 | 291 |
| 4 | May 8, 2017 19:30 | May 8, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 137 | 103 |
| 5 | July 15, 2017 14:00 | July 15, 2017 16:30 | 2h 30m | 131 | 328 |
| 6 | August 11, 2017 15:15 | August 11, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 130 | 259 |
| 7 | May 19, 2017 00:15 | May 19, 2017 02:15 | 2h | 126 | 252 |
| 8 | June 14, 2017 02:15 | June 15, 2017 15:15 | 1d 13h | 119 | 540 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 10:00 | May 1, 2017 23:45 | 13h 45m | 117 | 365 |
| 10 | July 18, 2017 00:45 | July 18, 2017 10:30 | 9h 45m | 108 | 820 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.6 hrs | 0.91 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/south-dakota/lincoln-county