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2022 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 1795th 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 Meade 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 18, 2022 10:15 | July 18, 2022 22:15 | 12h | 1,593 | 1,949 |
| 2 | July 25, 2022 03:00 | July 25, 2022 04:45 | 1h 45m | 794 | 1,191 |
| 3 | December 15, 2022 03:15 | December 17, 2022 21:15 | 2d 18h | 792 | 5,321 |
| 4 | November 29, 2022 21:15 | November 30, 2022 13:45 | 16h 30m | 504 | 177 |
| 5 | April 23, 2022 03:00 | April 29, 2022 13:15 | 6d 10h | 360 | 4,728 |
| 6 | April 8, 2022 15:15 | April 8, 2022 19:00 | 3h 45m | 318 | 1,193 |
| 7 | December 13, 2022 17:45 | December 13, 2022 22:45 | 5h | 283 | 465 |
| 8 | October 25, 2022 19:00 | October 26, 2022 14:00 | 19h | 273 | 294 |
| 9 | May 8, 2022 16:45 | May 8, 2022 19:45 | 3h | 241 | 368 |
| 10 | October 24, 2022 16:45 | October 24, 2022 17:15 | 30m | 226 | 113 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 1.6 hrs | 0.85 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 0.70 | 80 min | 0.61 |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | 2022 | 47 min | 0.48 | 47 min | 0.48 |
| 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 89% of South Dakota's customers in 2022; 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, 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/meade-county