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2024 Hutchinson County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hutchinson County, SD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 6,389 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2694th 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 Hutchinson 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 30, 2024 00:00 | July 30, 2024 14:00 | 14h | 769 | 1,075 |
| 2 | June 22, 2024 17:15 | June 22, 2024 17:30 | 15m | 153 | 38 |
| 3 | June 20, 2024 17:15 | June 20, 2024 22:00 | 4h 45m | 132 | 117 |
| 4 | July 14, 2024 13:45 | July 17, 2024 22:45 | 3d 9h | 92 | 232 |
| 5 | April 7, 2024 00:15 | April 7, 2024 04:45 | 4h 30m | 88 | 30 |
| 6 | November 7, 2024 16:00 | November 7, 2024 22:30 | 6h 30m | 82 | 99 |
| 7 | April 18, 2024 16:15 | May 15, 2024 21:00 | 27d 4h | 79 | 1,264 |
| 8 | August 26, 2024 21:15 | August 26, 2024 22:45 | 1h 30m | 57 | 84 |
| 9 | September 27, 2024 22:15 | September 28, 2024 00:45 | 2h 30m | 57 | 73 |
| 10 | January 11, 2024 20:00 | January 11, 2024 22:00 | 2h | 38 | 58 |
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 Hutchinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| NorthWestern Energy - (SD) | 2024 | 76 min | 0.70 | 66 min | 0.65 |
| Bon Homme Yankton El Assn, Inc | 2018 | 34 min | 0.32 | 34 min | 0.32 |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Douglas 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,650 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county