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2024 Hughes County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hughes County, SD went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,534 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2922nd 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 Hughes 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 | July 19, 2024 15:00 | July 19, 2024 18:45 | 3h 45m | 418 | 1,185 |
| 2 | August 20, 2024 10:45 | August 20, 2024 13:30 | 2h 45m | 353 | 551 |
| 3 | September 26, 2024 05:30 | September 26, 2024 11:00 | 5h 30m | 119 | 655 |
| 4 | August 19, 2024 15:00 | August 19, 2024 17:30 | 2h 30m | 65 | 115 |
| 5 | March 10, 2024 13:00 | March 10, 2024 15:45 | 2h 45m | 7 | 10 |
| 6 | November 6, 2024 20:00 | November 6, 2024 22:30 | 2h 30m | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | August 20, 2024 16:30 | August 20, 2024 19:30 | 3h | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | January 13, 2024 19:15 | January 13, 2024 20:30 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | June 4, 2024 18:15 | June 4, 2024 18:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | June 9, 2024 01:15 | June 9, 2024 01:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 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 Hughes 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oahe Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pierre - (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 ÷ 14,362 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. Hughes County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hughes 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/hughes-county