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2023 Jerauld County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jerauld County, SD went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 191 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 2895th 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 Jerauld 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 | December 28, 2023 20:00 | December 28, 2023 22:15 | 2h 15m | 28 | 36 |
| 2 | December 29, 2023 18:15 | December 29, 2023 20:15 | 2h | 27 | 39 |
| 3 | January 19, 2023 08:30 | January 19, 2023 09:30 | 1h | 7 | 6 |
| 4 | January 31, 2023 16:15 | January 31, 2023 17:15 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | July 26, 2023 16:15 | July 26, 2023 18:45 | 2h 30m | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | December 27, 2023 22:00 | December 27, 2023 23:45 | 1h 45m | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 03:15 | April 1, 2023 07:30 | 4h 15m | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | May 12, 2023 16:00 | May 12, 2023 16:45 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | March 2, 2023 12:00 | March 2, 2023 13:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | July 26, 2023 14:45 | July 26, 2023 15:15 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 0 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 Jerauld 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.37 | 74 min | 1.03 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dakota Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wessington Springs | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,049 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. Jerauld County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jerauld 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/jerauld-county