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2018 Edmunds County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Edmunds County, SD went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 2,137 customer-hours (South Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 30 South Dakota counties and 2317th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Edmunds County, 2018
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 25, 2018 16:00 | April 25, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 521 | 389 |
| 2 | April 23, 2018 14:45 | April 23, 2018 15:15 | 30m | 517 | 258 |
| 3 | February 8, 2018 20:00 | February 8, 2018 21:00 | 1h | 305 | 304 |
| 4 | June 6, 2018 05:00 | June 6, 2018 05:30 | 30m | 289 | 144 |
| 5 | July 31, 2018 22:45 | July 31, 2018 23:15 | 30m | 243 | 120 |
| 6 | September 17, 2018 17:30 | September 17, 2018 22:15 | 4h 45m | 171 | 809 |
| 7 | May 6, 2018 15:15 | May 6, 2018 17:45 | 2h 30m | 11 | 26 |
| 8 | May 25, 2018 18:45 | May 25, 2018 19:00 | 15m | 11 | 3 |
| 9 | July 3, 2018 15:15 | July 3, 2018 16:15 | 1h | 10 | 10 |
| 10 | May 6, 2018 14:15 | May 6, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 9 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 Edmunds County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.45 | 70 min | 1.25 |
| FEM Electric Assn, Inc | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 2.21 | 3.8 hrs | 2.21 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 46% of South Dakota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,191 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. Edmunds County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edmunds County, SD annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/south-dakota/edmunds-county