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2022 Potter County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Potter County, SD went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 4,672 customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 63 South Dakota counties and 1627th 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 Potter 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 14, 2022 14:45 | June 14, 2022 15:45 | 1h | 342 | 341 |
| 2 | June 14, 2022 08:45 | June 14, 2022 09:00 | 15m | 263 | 66 |
| 3 | April 14, 2022 03:00 | April 14, 2022 03:45 | 45m | 127 | 34 |
| 4 | December 16, 2022 06:00 | December 17, 2022 02:15 | 20h 15m | 74 | 1,067 |
| 5 | April 23, 2022 04:15 | April 23, 2022 08:15 | 4h | 56 | 223 |
| 6 | November 13, 2022 13:15 | November 15, 2022 18:15 | 2d 5h | 56 | 2,013 |
| 7 | December 22, 2022 13:15 | December 22, 2022 23:00 | 9h 45m | 56 | 497 |
| 8 | December 16, 2022 01:00 | December 16, 2022 01:15 | 15m | 53 | 13 |
| 9 | December 15, 2022 19:30 | December 15, 2022 19:45 | 15m | 47 | 12 |
| 10 | December 15, 2022 18:30 | December 15, 2022 18:45 | 15m | 35 | 9 |
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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cam Wal 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 ÷ 1,138 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. Potter County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/south-dakota/potter-county