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2017 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 8,451 customer-hours (South Dakota average 0.8 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 26 South Dakota counties and 2245th 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 Meade 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 | October 18, 2017 13:30 | October 18, 2017 13:45 | 15m | 2,432 | 608 |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 17, 2017 19:00 | 15m | 2,084 | 521 |
| 3 | March 12, 2017 18:15 | March 13, 2017 00:15 | 6h | 1,628 | 2,582 |
| 4 | September 15, 2017 11:45 | September 15, 2017 12:15 | 30m | 1,565 | 783 |
| 5 | September 15, 2017 13:15 | September 15, 2017 13:45 | 30m | 1,565 | 395 |
| 6 | May 19, 2017 17:00 | May 19, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 785 | 393 |
| 7 | April 18, 2017 03:30 | April 18, 2017 06:45 | 3h 15m | 721 | 1,126 |
| 8 | July 28, 2017 01:00 | July 28, 2017 02:30 | 1h 30m | 391 | 587 |
| 9 | July 17, 2017 12:00 | July 17, 2017 14:15 | 2h 15m | 320 | 720 |
| 10 | May 10, 2017 14:15 | May 10, 2017 15:00 | 45m | 101 | 26 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2017 | 6.3 hrs | 1.90 | 68 min | 0.58 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/meade-county