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2024 Hand County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hand County, SD went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 1,429 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2796th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hand County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 25, 2024 12:30 | October 25, 2024 21:45 | 9h 15m | 146 | 1,351 |
| 2 | July 6, 2024 20:45 | July 6, 2024 22:30 | 1h 45m | 11 | 17 |
| 3 | August 18, 2024 01:45 | August 18, 2024 06:45 | 5h | 5 | 25 |
| 4 | January 10, 2024 17:00 | January 10, 2024 22:15 | 5h 15m | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | June 12, 2024 13:00 | June 12, 2024 17:00 | 4h | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | August 26, 2024 03:15 | August 26, 2024 06:45 | 3h 30m | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | September 17, 2024 17:30 | September 17, 2024 19:15 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | October 24, 2024 15:15 | October 24, 2024 15:30 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | April 19, 2024 04:00 | April 19, 2024 05:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | August 20, 2024 18:15 | August 20, 2024 23:15 | 5h | 1 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 Hand County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 76 min | 0.70 | 66 min | 0.65 |
| Northern Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 50 min | 0.67 | 50 min | 0.67 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dakota Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Miller - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,991 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. Hand County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hand County, SD annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/south-dakota/hand-county