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2021 Brule County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Brule County, SD went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (South Dakota average 3.4 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 1474th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brule County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 15, 2021 03:45 | March 15, 2021 10:00 | 6h 15m | 2,067 | 8,171 |
| 2 | May 8, 2021 21:15 | May 11, 2021 15:30 | 2d 18h | 733 | 2,804 |
| 3 | November 12, 2021 12:45 | November 12, 2021 15:00 | 2h 15m | 191 | 125 |
| 4 | March 15, 2021 10:45 | March 15, 2021 19:45 | 9h | 97 | 116 |
| 5 | July 5, 2021 21:00 | July 5, 2021 23:00 | 2h | 69 | 54 |
| 6 | August 31, 2021 11:45 | August 31, 2021 12:30 | 45m | 43 | 11 |
| 7 | April 8, 2021 17:30 | April 8, 2021 19:00 | 1h 30m | 33 | 26 |
| 8 | February 3, 2021 18:30 | February 3, 2021 21:45 | 3h 15m | 24 | 78 |
| 9 | August 31, 2021 14:45 | August 31, 2021 17:15 | 2h 30m | 24 | 60 |
| 10 | October 5, 2021 15:30 | October 5, 2021 17:00 | 1h 30m | 24 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 0.95 | 81 min | 0.83 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/south-dakota/brule-county