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2024 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (South Dakota average 2.3 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2203rd 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 Meade 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 10, 2024 00:00 | July 10, 2024 02:15 | 2h 15m | 1,690 | 2,186 |
| 2 | February 26, 2024 01:15 | February 26, 2024 03:15 | 2h | 875 | 1,553 |
| 3 | July 11, 2024 16:00 | July 11, 2024 19:30 | 3h 30m | 809 | 411 |
| 4 | April 23, 2024 14:15 | April 23, 2024 17:45 | 3h 30m | 804 | 1,842 |
| 5 | April 2, 2024 17:45 | April 7, 2024 02:30 | 4d 8h | 790 | 1,723 |
| 6 | July 8, 2024 14:00 | July 8, 2024 22:15 | 8h 15m | 761 | 198 |
| 7 | December 21, 2024 18:45 | December 23, 2024 22:45 | 2d 4h | 657 | 1,403 |
| 8 | July 30, 2024 23:00 | July 31, 2024 02:00 | 3h | 618 | 531 |
| 9 | July 9, 2024 13:15 | July 9, 2024 19:30 | 6h 15m | 540 | 143 |
| 10 | November 3, 2024 20:45 | November 5, 2024 14:00 | 1d 17h | 459 | 618 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 24 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2024 | 40 min | 0.70 | 40 min | 0.70 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.8 hrs | 1.03 | 1.7 hrs | 0.77 |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | 2024 | 44 min | 0.53 | 44 min | 0.53 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butte Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Faith - (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 ÷ 14,286 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. Meade County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county