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2024 Lincoln County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, SD went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2483rd 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 Lincoln 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 | April 22, 2024 01:30 | April 29, 2024 20:30 | 7d 19h | 14,526 | 6,677 |
| 2 | April 5, 2024 14:15 | April 10, 2024 21:30 | 5d 7h | 3,020 | 5,311 |
| 3 | February 21, 2024 18:15 | March 11, 2024 13:00 | 18d 18h | 3,014 | 2,254 |
| 4 | July 8, 2024 16:45 | July 17, 2024 20:45 | 9d 4h | 1,739 | 5,876 |
| 5 | April 15, 2024 16:00 | April 17, 2024 13:00 | 1d 21h | 840 | 1,426 |
| 6 | October 24, 2024 15:15 | November 4, 2024 13:45 | 10d 22h | 826 | 2,052 |
| 7 | June 2, 2024 20:30 | June 13, 2024 18:00 | 10d 21h | 646 | 2,102 |
| 8 | June 17, 2024 06:45 | June 17, 2024 15:00 | 8h 15m | 618 | 2,634 |
| 9 | August 2, 2024 03:30 | August 18, 2024 13:30 | 16d 10h | 552 | 4,134 |
| 10 | November 14, 2024 15:30 | November 20, 2024 13:45 | 5d 22h | 478 | 989 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay-Union Electric Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Beresford | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,561 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county