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2018 Perkins County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Perkins County, SD went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 3,054 customer-hours (South Dakota average 1.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 30 South Dakota counties and 1392nd 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 Perkins County, 2018
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 25, 2018 00:15 | September 25, 2018 04:15 | 4h | 763 | 3,004 |
| 2 | April 3, 2018 22:15 | April 3, 2018 23:00 | 45m | 8 | 6 |
| 3 | February 26, 2018 21:00 | February 26, 2018 22:15 | 1h 15m | 7 | 9 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 15:00 | April 4, 2018 15:45 | 45m | 7 | 4 |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 23:45 | April 5, 2018 02:00 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 6 | February 26, 2018 23:00 | February 27, 2018 00:00 | 1h | 6 | 6 |
| 7 | September 8, 2018 19:45 | September 8, 2018 21:45 | 2h | 5 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 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 Perkins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 890 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. Perkins County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Perkins 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/south-dakota/perkins-county