2024 South Dakota Power Outage Report
In 2024, the average South Dakota customer went without power for about 2.3 hours, the 44th worst of 51 states (US average 11.2 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.
Avg hrs / customer
2.3
vs prior year
▼ 2%
vs 2023
Customer-hours out
1.1M
Peak customers out
27,312
across the state at once
EAGLE-I coverage
n/a
of SD customers
Counties reporting
65
South Dakota year over year
All 65 South Dakota counties, 2024
Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.
| # | County | Hrs / customer | Customer-hours | Customers | Peak out | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perkins County | 31.0 | 28K | 890 | 890 | 118 |
| 2 | Todd County | 30.0 | 66K | 2,194 | 2,194 | 71 |
| 3 | Hyde County | 17.3 | 11K | 615 | 615 | 15 |
| 4 | Mellette County | 13.1 | 13K | 957 | 533 | 46 |
| 5 | Harding County | 10.5 | 19K | 1,828 | 1,532 | 95 |
| 6 | Marshall County | 8.8 | 22K | 2,509 | 827 | 105 |
| 7 | Ziebach County | 7.2 | 9,938 | 1,374 | 1,103 | 79 |
| 8 | Deuel County | 6.0 | 8,960 | 1,505 | 771 | 192 |
| 9 | Day County | 5.7 | 23K | 4,051 | 971 | 162 |
| 10 | Union County | 5.5 | 18K | 3,359 | 1,806 | 156 |
| 11 | Campbell County | 4.8 | 2,758 | 576 | 235 | 11 |
| 12 | Turner County | 4.6 | 23K | 4,964 | 825 | 145 |
| 13 | Butte County | 3.9 | 18K | 4,717 | 585 | 103 |
| 14 | Bon Homme County | 3.9 | 11K | 2,917 | 985 | 69 |
| 15 | Hanson County | 3.8 | 7,442 | 1,960 | 749 | 59 |
| 16 | Hamlin County | 3.7 | 8,141 | 2,187 | 913 | 146 |
| 17 | Charles Mix County | 3.6 | 18K | 4,915 | 1,204 | 141 |
| 18 | Roberts County | 3.5 | 14K | 4,096 | 888 | 179 |
| 19 | Fall River County | 3.4 | 14K | 4,055 | 1,669 | 162 |
| 20 | Lawrence County | 3.4 | 53K | 15,540 | 4,833 | 182 |
| 21 | McCook County | 3.2 | 9,889 | 3,102 | 1,234 | 116 |
| 22 | Minnehaha County | 3.0 | 279K | 91,940 | 12,418 | 446 |
| 23 | Corson County | 2.8 | 5,506 | 1,975 | 281 | 81 |
| 24 | Meade County | 2.7 | 38K | 14,286 | 1,690 | 172 |
| 25 | Haakon County | 2.6 | 3,560 | 1,375 | 240 | 79 |
| 26 | Grant County | 2.5 | 7,676 | 3,124 | 1,674 | 185 |
| 27 | Custer County | 2.2 | 9,972 | 4,481 | 714 | 184 |
| 28 | Spink County | 2.1 | 7,171 | 3,353 | 769 | 110 |
| 29 | Davison County | 1.9 | 22K | 11,593 | 2,735 | 200 |
| 30 | McPherson County | 1.8 | 2,206 | 1,223 | 603 | 9 |
| 31 | Brookings County | 1.8 | 34K | 19,030 | 465 | 179 |
| 32 | Lincoln County | 1.7 | 55K | 31,561 | 14,526 | 173 |
| 33 | Miner County | 1.6 | 1,760 | 1,069 | 340 | 34 |
| 34 | Jones County | 1.6 | 1,089 | 697 | 160 | 45 |
| 35 | Lyman County | 1.5 | 4,337 | 2,969 | 471 | 84 |
| 36 | Moody County | 1.4 | 5,099 | 3,517 | 167 | 195 |
| 37 | Sanborn County | 1.4 | 2,075 | 1,463 | 195 | 55 |
| 38 | Stanley County | 1.3 | 3,326 | 2,520 | 245 | 72 |
| 39 | Aurora County | 1.3 | 1,763 | 1,368 | 292 | 54 |
| 40 | Pennington County | 1.3 | 88K | 68,130 | 4,330 | 316 |
| 41 | Douglas County | 1.3 | 2,239 | 1,745 | 519 | 25 |
| 42 | Brown County | 1.3 | 24K | 19,238 | 2,920 | 227 |
| 43 | Beadle County | 1.2 | 11K | 9,787 | 1,101 | 221 |
| 44 | Tripp County | 1.2 | 5,528 | 4,744 | 591 | 146 |
| 45 | Hutchinson County | 1.1 | 6,389 | 5,650 | 769 | 173 |
| 46 | Clark County | 1.0 | 1,637 | 1,587 | 317 | 39 |
| 47 | Jackson County | 1.0 | 925 | 915 | 116 | 40 |
| 48 | Buffalo County | 1.0 | 595 | 592 | 56 | 34 |
| 49 | Dewey County | 1.0 | 4,880 | 4,866 | 371 | 79 |
| 50 | Lake County | 1.0 | 7,955 | 8,064 | 562 | 192 |
| 51 | Kingsbury County | 0.9 | 2,446 | 2,587 | 202 | 59 |
| 52 | Jerauld County | 0.9 | 977 | 1,049 | 154 | 35 |
| 53 | Yankton County | 0.8 | 10K | 11,940 | 1,500 | 151 |
| 54 | Hand County | 0.7 | 1,429 | 1,991 | 146 | 10 |
| 55 | Brule County | 0.7 | 1,924 | 2,837 | 444 | 58 |
| 56 | Gregory County | 0.6 | 1,528 | 2,673 | 129 | 101 |
| 57 | Oglala Lakota County | 0.5 | 2,240 | 4,164 | 563 | 63 |
| 58 | Potter County | 0.5 | 571 | 1,138 | 23 | 13 |
| 59 | Faulk County | 0.5 | 526 | 1,168 | 150 | 34 |
| 60 | Edmunds County | 0.4 | 851 | 2,191 | 534 | 13 |
| 61 | Walworth County | 0.4 | 907 | 2,370 | 305 | 32 |
| 62 | Hughes County | 0.2 | 2,534 | 14,362 | 418 | 12 |
| 63 | Codington County | 0.1 | 2,994 | 24,302 | 220 | 50 |
| 64 | Clay County | 0.0 | 146 | 8,444 | 29 | 7 |
| 65 | Bennett County | 0.0 | 10 | 715 | 2 | 1 |
Biggest South Dakota outages of 2024
Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.
| # | County | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lincoln County, SD | April 22, 2024 01:30 | April 29, 2024 20:30 | 7d 19h | 14,526 | 6,677 |
| 2 | Minnehaha County, SD | March 25, 2024 15:45 | May 16, 2024 22:00 | 52d 6h | 12,418 | 29K |
| 3 | Minnehaha County, SD | June 17, 2024 06:30 | June 18, 2024 02:30 | 20h | 11,079 | 40K |
| 4 | Lawrence County, SD | January 18, 2024 22:15 | January 19, 2024 02:30 | 4h 15m | 4,833 | 7,309 |
| 5 | Pennington County, SD | November 21, 2024 20:30 | November 22, 2024 00:15 | 3h 45m | 4,330 | 1,863 |
| 6 | Lincoln County, SD | April 5, 2024 14:15 | April 10, 2024 21:30 | 5d 7h | 3,020 | 5,311 |
| 7 | Lincoln County, SD | February 21, 2024 18:15 | March 11, 2024 13:00 | 18d 18h | 3,014 | 2,254 |
| 8 | Brown County, SD | July 31, 2024 16:00 | July 31, 2024 18:00 | 2h | 2,920 | 2,346 |
| 9 | Davison County, SD | June 22, 2024 02:30 | June 22, 2024 10:45 | 8h 15m | 2,735 | 2,124 |
| 10 | Minnehaha County, SD | June 12, 2024 04:00 | June 12, 2024 05:30 | 1h 30m | 2,708 | 3,767 |
| 11 | Minnehaha County, SD | June 18, 2024 09:15 | July 5, 2024 20:30 | 17d 11h | 2,707 | 16K |
| 12 | Minnehaha County, SD | August 4, 2024 14:00 | August 4, 2024 20:15 | 6h 15m | 2,700 | 9,914 |
| 13 | Minnehaha County, SD | March 24, 2024 22:30 | March 25, 2024 09:30 | 11h | 2,353 | 2,844 |
| 14 | Minnehaha County, SD | July 29, 2024 15:30 | August 2, 2024 17:45 | 4d 2h | 2,310 | 8,929 |
| 15 | Lawrence County, SD | August 20, 2024 01:15 | August 20, 2024 08:30 | 7h 15m | 2,215 | 3,875 |
| 16 | Todd County, SD | July 10, 2024 22:15 | July 11, 2024 04:30 | 6h 15m | 2,194 | 4,635 |
| 17 | Brown County, SD | June 18, 2024 08:15 | June 18, 2024 18:45 | 10h 30m | 2,058 | 11K |
| 18 | Union County, SD | July 13, 2024 19:00 | July 13, 2024 20:15 | 1h 15m | 1,806 | 1,943 |
| 19 | Pennington County, SD | April 7, 2024 00:45 | April 7, 2024 04:45 | 4h | 1,760 | 2,910 |
| 20 | Lincoln County, SD | July 8, 2024 16:45 | July 17, 2024 20:45 | 9d 4h | 1,739 | 5,876 |
| 21 | Minnehaha County, SD | October 24, 2024 18:15 | November 4, 2024 15:30 | 10d 21h | 1,709 | 5,213 |
| 22 | Pennington County, SD | April 29, 2024 22:00 | April 29, 2024 22:30 | 30m | 1,698 | 849 |
| 23 | Meade County, SD | July 10, 2024 00:00 | July 10, 2024 02:15 | 2h 15m | 1,690 | 2,186 |
| 24 | Grant County, SD | August 21, 2024 13:45 | August 21, 2024 18:15 | 4h 30m | 1,674 | 1,227 |
| 25 | Fall River County, SD | September 11, 2024 12:45 | September 12, 2024 14:45 | 1d 2h | 1,669 | 443 |
EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of South Dakota's electricity customers in 2024; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.
Part of the 2024 US Power Outage Report.
Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.