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2020 Jones County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jones County, SD went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 3,477 customer-hours (South Dakota average 4.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 62 South Dakota counties and 1395th 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 Jones 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 | April 20, 2020 22:45 | April 21, 2020 02:00 | 3h 15m | 415 | 562 |
| 2 | April 15, 2020 15:45 | April 15, 2020 22:00 | 6h 15m | 254 | 323 |
| 3 | December 6, 2020 12:00 | December 6, 2020 13:00 | 1h | 217 | 167 |
| 4 | July 5, 2020 22:30 | July 6, 2020 01:30 | 3h | 123 | 141 |
| 5 | July 24, 2020 23:45 | July 25, 2020 02:45 | 3h | 105 | 143 |
| 6 | April 11, 2020 16:45 | April 11, 2020 19:15 | 2h 30m | 85 | 150 |
| 7 | June 8, 2020 00:30 | June 9, 2020 14:00 | 1d 13h | 70 | 249 |
| 8 | July 2, 2020 21:30 | July 2, 2020 22:00 | 30m | 66 | 33 |
| 9 | September 29, 2020 09:00 | September 29, 2020 11:00 | 2h | 64 | 128 |
| 10 | November 14, 2020 22:15 | November 14, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 62 | 59 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Jones 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Central Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | 2018 | 3.7 hrs | 1.25 | 1.5 hrs | 1.25 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 697 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. Jones County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county