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2018 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (South Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 30 South Dakota counties and 1906th 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 Meade 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 | February 10, 2018 09:45 | February 10, 2018 10:45 | 1h | 1,651 | 1,651 |
| 2 | June 9, 2018 03:30 | June 9, 2018 07:00 | 3h 30m | 1,642 | 2,057 |
| 3 | May 5, 2018 21:15 | May 5, 2018 21:45 | 30m | 1,550 | 775 |
| 4 | September 24, 2018 15:15 | September 24, 2018 19:00 | 3h 45m | 259 | 756 |
| 5 | August 1, 2018 16:45 | August 1, 2018 18:30 | 1h 45m | 217 | 139 |
| 6 | October 24, 2018 15:15 | October 24, 2018 16:00 | 45m | 189 | 142 |
| 7 | October 24, 2018 19:15 | October 24, 2018 19:30 | 15m | 189 | 47 |
| 8 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 22:15 | 19h | 176 | 1,969 |
| 9 | November 28, 2018 17:15 | November 28, 2018 17:45 | 30m | 140 | 36 |
| 10 | September 20, 2018 19:15 | September 21, 2018 21:30 | 1d 2h | 133 | 1,453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 16 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.21 | 3.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 68 min | 0.92 | 68 min | 0.92 |
| 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 46% of South Dakota's customers in 2018; 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, 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/meade-county