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2020 Brule County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brule County, SD went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (South Dakota average 4.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 62 South Dakota counties and 699th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brule County, 2020
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 4, 2020 16:45 | July 5, 2020 15:15 | 22h 30m | 2,117 | 4,696 |
| 2 | July 5, 2020 22:15 | July 6, 2020 03:00 | 4h 45m | 2,116 | 5,158 |
| 3 | August 31, 2020 13:00 | August 31, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 2,114 | 2,643 |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 03:00 | June 9, 2020 18:45 | 15h 45m | 1,368 | 4,716 |
| 5 | September 6, 2020 03:15 | September 6, 2020 04:45 | 1h 30m | 1,301 | 1,952 |
| 6 | September 7, 2020 03:30 | September 7, 2020 05:00 | 1h 30m | 1,301 | 1,691 |
| 7 | October 22, 2020 11:45 | October 22, 2020 15:00 | 3h 15m | 1,256 | 4,082 |
| 8 | July 6, 2020 20:15 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | 1h | 490 | 490 |
| 9 | June 4, 2020 01:00 | June 4, 2020 02:15 | 1h 15m | 462 | 578 |
| 10 | June 10, 2020 01:45 | June 10, 2020 22:45 | 21h | 231 | 4,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Brule County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.54 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Charles Mix Electric Assn, 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 79% of South Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,837 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. Brule County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brule County, SD annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/south-dakota/brule-county