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2023 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 2248th 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 Meade 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 23, 2023 17:45 | January 23, 2023 21:45 | 4h | 812 | 2,842 |
| 2 | September 19, 2023 16:00 | September 19, 2023 17:30 | 1h 30m | 809 | 1,214 |
| 3 | November 6, 2023 19:15 | November 6, 2023 21:30 | 2h 15m | 808 | 810 |
| 4 | June 10, 2023 17:00 | June 10, 2023 17:15 | 15m | 783 | 196 |
| 5 | May 31, 2023 19:30 | May 31, 2023 20:45 | 1h 15m | 570 | 713 |
| 6 | September 8, 2023 17:00 | September 8, 2023 20:30 | 3h 30m | 490 | 1,323 |
| 7 | August 18, 2023 19:30 | September 1, 2023 15:45 | 13d 20h | 457 | 3,139 |
| 8 | January 20, 2023 21:00 | January 20, 2023 22:45 | 1h 45m | 350 | 482 |
| 9 | September 4, 2023 21:00 | September 5, 2023 17:30 | 20h 30m | 321 | 2,609 |
| 10 | October 19, 2023 21:15 | October 23, 2023 13:00 | 3d 15h | 307 | 1,134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2023 | 66 min | 0.77 | 64 min | 0.74 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 0.78 | 88 min | 0.62 |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | 2023 | 38 min | 0.46 | 38 min | 0.46 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butte Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Faith - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,286 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. Meade County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county