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2023 Hutchinson County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hutchinson County, SD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 2067th 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 Hutchinson 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 | November 7, 2023 18:30 | November 7, 2023 22:30 | 4h | 973 | 3,406 |
| 2 | December 25, 2023 10:00 | December 25, 2023 10:30 | 30m | 538 | 135 |
| 3 | September 3, 2023 22:30 | September 3, 2023 23:45 | 1h 15m | 419 | 524 |
| 4 | February 15, 2023 08:00 | February 15, 2023 11:00 | 3h | 418 | 1,254 |
| 5 | June 2, 2023 11:00 | June 2, 2023 13:15 | 2h 15m | 392 | 491 |
| 6 | July 12, 2023 08:45 | July 14, 2023 14:45 | 2d 6h | 315 | 683 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 02:30 | April 3, 2023 16:45 | 2d 14h | 242 | 2,123 |
| 8 | July 26, 2023 04:15 | July 26, 2023 16:45 | 12h 30m | 169 | 279 |
| 9 | January 3, 2023 03:30 | January 3, 2023 05:15 | 1h 45m | 153 | 268 |
| 10 | August 16, 2023 15:45 | August 16, 2023 17:15 | 1h 30m | 92 | 104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 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 Hutchinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.37 | 74 min | 1.03 |
| Bon Homme Yankton El Assn, Inc | 2018 | 34 min | 0.32 | 34 min | 0.32 |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Douglas 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 n/a of South Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,650 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county