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2022 Hutchinson County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hutchinson County, SD went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 1543rd 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 Hutchinson 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 | May 12, 2022 21:30 | May 16, 2022 14:15 | 3d 16h | 2,702 | 15K |
| 2 | June 13, 2022 13:00 | June 27, 2022 06:00 | 13d 17h | 477 | 4,279 |
| 3 | April 23, 2022 06:15 | April 23, 2022 17:30 | 11h 15m | 161 | 364 |
| 4 | April 3, 2022 18:30 | April 3, 2022 21:30 | 3h | 151 | 365 |
| 5 | July 26, 2022 17:30 | July 26, 2022 19:15 | 1h 45m | 151 | 264 |
| 6 | August 3, 2022 01:30 | August 3, 2022 13:00 | 11h 30m | 151 | 269 |
| 7 | April 26, 2022 14:00 | April 26, 2022 22:00 | 8h | 81 | 285 |
| 8 | May 27, 2022 20:30 | May 28, 2022 02:15 | 5h 45m | 81 | 125 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 02:00 | July 6, 2022 06:00 | 1d 4h | 80 | 181 |
| 10 | May 16, 2022 19:00 | May 16, 2022 20:30 | 1h 30m | 79 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Hutchinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 | 80 min | 1.01 |
| Bon Homme Yankton El Assn, Inc | 2018 | 34 min | 0.32 | 34 min | 0.32 |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Douglas Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 5,650 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county