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2022 Hand County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hand County, SD went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 3,479 customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 2384th 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 Hand 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 | July 5, 2022 17:30 | July 6, 2022 17:45 | 1d | 388 | 1,412 |
| 2 | November 10, 2022 09:45 | November 10, 2022 17:00 | 7h 15m | 339 | 1,134 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 12:00 | May 12, 2022 14:15 | 2h 15m | 338 | 761 |
| 4 | November 8, 2022 00:15 | November 8, 2022 01:15 | 1h | 77 | 77 |
| 5 | June 21, 2022 03:00 | June 21, 2022 07:15 | 4h 15m | 21 | 55 |
| 6 | July 4, 2022 12:30 | July 4, 2022 17:15 | 4h 45m | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | April 13, 2022 19:30 | April 13, 2022 19:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | April 23, 2022 10:00 | April 23, 2022 12:45 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | May 17, 2022 19:15 | May 17, 2022 20:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | May 22, 2022 13:45 | May 22, 2022 16:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 3 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 Hand 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 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.1 hrs | 1.09 | 1.8 hrs | 0.77 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dakota Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Miller - (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 89% of South Dakota's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,991 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. Hand County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hand 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/hand-county