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2023 Codington County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Codington County, SD went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 6,149 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 2875th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Codington County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 5, 2023 11:45 | April 5, 2023 18:00 | 6h 15m | 985 | 4,321 |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 20:15 | April 5, 2023 23:30 | 3h 15m | 142 | 357 |
| 3 | January 26, 2023 23:45 | January 27, 2023 03:15 | 3h 30m | 127 | 427 |
| 4 | July 22, 2023 01:30 | July 22, 2023 10:15 | 8h 45m | 72 | 265 |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 00:30 | August 11, 2023 10:00 | 9h 30m | 22 | 163 |
| 6 | August 21, 2023 19:45 | August 21, 2023 22:15 | 2h 30m | 22 | 55 |
| 7 | April 18, 2023 15:15 | April 18, 2023 23:00 | 7h 45m | 19 | 68 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 13:45 | July 25, 2023 16:00 | 2h 15m | 14 | 28 |
| 9 | April 6, 2023 15:00 | April 6, 2023 19:30 | 4h 30m | 12 | 36 |
| 10 | April 13, 2023 15:30 | April 13, 2023 17:30 | 2h | 12 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 Codington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.78 | 1.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.37 | 74 min | 1.03 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Whetstone Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 73 min | 0.64 | 42 min | 0.43 |
| Watertown Municipal Utilities | 2023 | 7 min | 0.10 | 7 min | 0.10 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Codington-Clark Elec 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 n/a of South Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,302 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. Codington County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Codington County, SD annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/south-dakota/codington-county