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2022 Douglas County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Douglas County, SD went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 7,213 customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 1620th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Douglas County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 20, 2022 23:30 | June 21, 2022 03:30 | 4h | 661 | 2,609 |
| 2 | May 30, 2022 05:45 | May 30, 2022 10:45 | 5h | 454 | 1,366 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 21:30 | May 13, 2022 02:00 | 4h 30m | 440 | 1,756 |
| 4 | December 13, 2022 06:45 | December 13, 2022 10:00 | 3h 15m | 143 | 465 |
| 5 | January 29, 2022 18:30 | January 30, 2022 00:00 | 5h 30m | 140 | 770 |
| 6 | February 16, 2022 16:15 | February 16, 2022 22:00 | 5h 45m | 13 | 41 |
| 7 | February 18, 2022 14:45 | February 18, 2022 19:15 | 4h 30m | 12 | 54 |
| 8 | February 15, 2022 16:30 | February 15, 2022 21:15 | 4h 45m | 9 | 33 |
| 9 | August 29, 2022 15:00 | August 29, 2022 18:00 | 3h | 8 | 20 |
| 10 | February 10, 2022 19:30 | February 10, 2022 21:30 | 2h | 5 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 Douglas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 | 80 min | 1.01 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Douglas Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 89% of South Dakota's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,745 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. Douglas County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas County, SD annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/south-dakota/douglas-county