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2019 Deuel County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Deuel County, SD went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 3,272 customer-hours (South Dakota average 3.8 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 58 South Dakota counties and 1981st of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Deuel County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 1, 2019 07:00 | July 1, 2019 15:45 | 8h 45m | 116 | 686 |
| 2 | July 20, 2019 11:45 | July 20, 2019 13:00 | 1h 15m | 92 | 115 |
| 3 | July 17, 2019 05:45 | July 17, 2019 13:30 | 7h 45m | 90 | 164 |
| 4 | December 29, 2019 14:30 | December 30, 2019 04:00 | 13h 30m | 64 | 225 |
| 5 | November 18, 2019 01:00 | November 18, 2019 06:15 | 5h 15m | 62 | 326 |
| 6 | November 18, 2019 09:15 | November 18, 2019 17:45 | 8h 30m | 62 | 527 |
| 7 | November 5, 2019 16:00 | November 5, 2019 18:00 | 2h | 45 | 90 |
| 8 | November 6, 2019 20:45 | November 6, 2019 22:30 | 1h 45m | 45 | 79 |
| 9 | December 28, 2019 02:00 | December 28, 2019 19:00 | 17h | 29 | 490 |
| 10 | December 3, 2019 18:15 | December 3, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 28 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 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 Deuel County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.30 | 1.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 3.62 | 2.0 hrs | 2.88 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Whetstone Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 73 min | 0.64 | 42 min | 0.43 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Codington-Clark Elec 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 87% of South Dakota's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,505 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. Deuel County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deuel County, SD annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/south-dakota/deuel-county