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2024 Jones County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jones County, SD went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 1,089 customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2546th 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 Jones 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 | January 4, 2024 17:45 | January 4, 2024 19:30 | 1h 45m | 160 | 103 |
| 2 | May 19, 2024 10:45 | May 19, 2024 13:15 | 2h 30m | 86 | 173 |
| 3 | August 14, 2024 03:45 | August 14, 2024 05:15 | 1h 30m | 86 | 61 |
| 4 | July 1, 2024 23:45 | July 2, 2024 03:15 | 3h 30m | 66 | 231 |
| 5 | July 14, 2024 06:30 | July 14, 2024 12:15 | 5h 45m | 42 | 132 |
| 6 | December 16, 2024 04:45 | December 16, 2024 06:15 | 1h 30m | 26 | 33 |
| 7 | December 16, 2024 19:45 | December 16, 2024 20:00 | 15m | 26 | 7 |
| 8 | August 22, 2024 12:30 | August 22, 2024 17:00 | 4h 30m | 20 | 33 |
| 9 | August 23, 2024 15:15 | August 23, 2024 20:00 | 4h 45m | 19 | 26 |
| 10 | August 16, 2024 18:45 | August 16, 2024 19:15 | 30m | 13 | 7 |
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 Jones 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Central Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | 2018 | 3.7 hrs | 1.25 | 1.5 hrs | 1.25 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 697 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. Jones County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county