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2019 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (South Dakota average 3.8 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 58 South Dakota counties and 1755th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meade 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 | August 5, 2019 13:45 | October 10, 2019 13:15 | 65d 23h | 2,357 | 7,343 |
| 2 | April 3, 2019 19:30 | April 3, 2019 19:45 | 15m | 2,228 | 557 |
| 3 | July 5, 2019 23:00 | July 6, 2019 03:30 | 4h 30m | 1,576 | 2,501 |
| 4 | November 9, 2019 17:45 | November 9, 2019 18:15 | 30m | 988 | 494 |
| 5 | May 26, 2019 10:45 | May 26, 2019 13:45 | 3h | 981 | 2,943 |
| 6 | December 8, 2019 22:30 | December 11, 2019 18:30 | 2d 20h | 837 | 1,426 |
| 7 | April 27, 2019 12:30 | April 27, 2019 18:00 | 5h 30m | 503 | 1,016 |
| 8 | April 20, 2019 13:15 | April 20, 2019 15:30 | 2h 15m | 446 | 534 |
| 9 | April 11, 2019 22:15 | April 12, 2019 20:45 | 22h 30m | 365 | 813 |
| 10 | February 15, 2019 04:00 | February 15, 2019 07:00 | 3h | 351 | 816 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 17 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 87% of South Dakota's customers in 2019; 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, 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/meade-county