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2023 Deuel County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Deuel County, SD went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 822nd 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 Deuel 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 | January 25, 2023 07:00 | January 25, 2023 17:30 | 10h 30m | 1,137 | 1,427 |
| 2 | April 4, 2023 21:30 | April 4, 2023 22:45 | 1h 15m | 961 | 567 |
| 3 | October 4, 2023 03:45 | October 4, 2023 13:30 | 9h 45m | 889 | 1,421 |
| 4 | December 25, 2023 08:45 | December 26, 2023 05:15 | 20h 30m | 621 | 1,805 |
| 5 | June 14, 2023 05:00 | June 14, 2023 07:30 | 2h 30m | 435 | 870 |
| 6 | July 2, 2023 23:15 | July 3, 2023 00:15 | 1h | 200 | 200 |
| 7 | December 1, 2023 16:45 | December 1, 2023 20:00 | 3h 15m | 191 | 66 |
| 8 | May 14, 2023 06:00 | May 14, 2023 08:00 | 2h | 190 | 176 |
| 9 | January 21, 2023 15:00 | January 23, 2023 21:45 | 2d 6h | 176 | 368 |
| 10 | April 10, 2023 00:30 | April 10, 2023 05:30 | 5h | 175 | 875 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 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 Deuel 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2023 | 60 min | 1.46 | 60 min | 1.46 |
| 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 |
| 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 ÷ 1,505 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. Deuel County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deuel 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/deuel-county