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2021 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (South Dakota average 3.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 1541st 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 Meade 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 | October 12, 2021 20:15 | October 14, 2021 20:15 | 2d | 8,735 | 8,929 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 20:15 | December 15, 2021 23:30 | 3h 15m | 830 | 619 |
| 3 | September 4, 2021 00:30 | September 27, 2021 22:00 | 23d 21h | 747 | 5,319 |
| 4 | February 12, 2021 03:30 | February 12, 2021 05:30 | 2h | 530 | 677 |
| 5 | January 14, 2021 17:45 | January 15, 2021 16:00 | 22h 15m | 524 | 734 |
| 6 | July 10, 2021 17:30 | July 15, 2021 12:15 | 4d 18h | 439 | 11K |
| 7 | December 7, 2021 17:15 | December 7, 2021 18:45 | 1h 30m | 424 | 415 |
| 8 | August 30, 2021 15:30 | August 31, 2021 21:15 | 1d 5h | 229 | 2,175 |
| 9 | April 7, 2021 02:15 | April 7, 2021 22:15 | 20h | 211 | 1,851 |
| 10 | June 29, 2021 14:15 | June 29, 2021 18:45 | 4h 30m | 180 | 810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 12 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.17 | 41 min | 0.32 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.6 hrs | 1.67 | 2.2 hrs | 1.02 |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | 2021 | 54 min | 0.72 | 54 min | 0.72 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, 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 79% of South Dakota's customers in 2021; 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, 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/meade-county