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2019 Hutchinson County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hutchinson County, SD went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,545 customer-hours (South Dakota average 3.8 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 58 South Dakota counties and 2430th of 2,945 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 Hutchinson 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 17, 2019 10:15 | July 17, 2019 19:15 | 9h | 507 | 955 |
| 2 | July 1, 2019 21:00 | July 2, 2019 13:45 | 16h 45m | 421 | 365 |
| 3 | September 10, 2019 20:30 | September 11, 2019 20:45 | 1d | 215 | 463 |
| 4 | July 27, 2019 21:15 | July 27, 2019 22:15 | 1h | 124 | 74 |
| 5 | June 27, 2019 12:00 | June 27, 2019 15:45 | 3h 45m | 89 | 97 |
| 6 | June 27, 2019 16:45 | June 27, 2019 17:15 | 30m | 89 | 45 |
| 7 | September 6, 2019 14:15 | September 6, 2019 14:45 | 30m | 85 | 43 |
| 8 | September 20, 2019 15:15 | September 20, 2019 16:15 | 1h | 85 | 85 |
| 9 | July 8, 2019 17:00 | July 15, 2019 13:30 | 6d 20h | 22 | 1,987 |
| 10 | July 19, 2019 20:00 | July 20, 2019 21:00 | 1d 1h | 18 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 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 Hutchinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| Bon Homme Yankton El Assn, Inc | 2018 | 34 min | 0.32 | 34 min | 0.32 |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Douglas 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 87% of South Dakota's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,650 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county