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2023 Potter County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Potter County, SD went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 2,086 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 61 South Dakota counties and 2354th 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 Potter 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 | June 24, 2023 06:45 | June 24, 2023 12:30 | 5h 45m | 221 | 1,271 |
| 2 | May 10, 2023 16:30 | May 10, 2023 18:45 | 2h 15m | 56 | 126 |
| 3 | June 8, 2023 11:30 | June 8, 2023 11:45 | 15m | 41 | 10 |
| 4 | February 15, 2023 20:45 | February 15, 2023 22:00 | 1h 15m | 38 | 46 |
| 5 | March 11, 2023 05:00 | March 11, 2023 14:00 | 9h | 38 | 342 |
| 6 | April 19, 2023 05:15 | April 19, 2023 07:00 | 1h 45m | 38 | 64 |
| 7 | July 19, 2023 19:00 | July 19, 2023 20:45 | 1h 45m | 19 | 33 |
| 8 | December 25, 2023 20:45 | December 25, 2023 23:00 | 2h 15m | 17 | 37 |
| 9 | July 5, 2023 15:00 | July 5, 2023 16:15 | 1h 15m | 9 | 11 |
| 10 | June 7, 2023 10:30 | June 7, 2023 14:30 | 4h | 8 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cam Wal 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 ÷ 1,138 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. Potter County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/south-dakota/potter-county