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2022 Lincoln County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, SD went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 2282nd 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 Lincoln 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 20:30 | July 7, 2022 14:15 | 1d 17h | 3,986 | 11K |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 22:00 | June 1, 2022 13:30 | 19d 15h | 3,027 | 20K |
| 3 | October 7, 2022 16:00 | October 14, 2022 20:30 | 7d 4h | 2,984 | 3,584 |
| 4 | March 22, 2022 03:15 | March 22, 2022 14:00 | 10h 45m | 1,451 | 1,405 |
| 5 | May 11, 2022 21:00 | May 12, 2022 12:45 | 15h 45m | 888 | 841 |
| 6 | September 30, 2022 21:45 | September 30, 2022 22:00 | 15m | 742 | 186 |
| 7 | September 15, 2022 19:00 | September 16, 2022 13:45 | 18h 45m | 700 | 706 |
| 8 | October 14, 2022 22:30 | October 31, 2022 12:45 | 16d 14h | 582 | 9,572 |
| 9 | February 5, 2022 14:45 | February 5, 2022 15:00 | 15m | 519 | 130 |
| 10 | June 14, 2022 08:30 | June 14, 2022 10:00 | 1h 30m | 519 | 779 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Lincoln 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 |
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.03 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay-Union Electric Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Beresford | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,561 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county