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2025 Butte County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Butte County, SD went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 2331st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butte County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 13, 2025 20:00 | November 14, 2025 06:45 | 10h 45m | 3,573 | 6,722 |
| 2 | April 3, 2025 19:30 | April 3, 2025 20:00 | 30m | 702 | 351 |
| 3 | April 28, 2025 15:30 | April 28, 2025 16:45 | 1h 15m | 143 | 151 |
| 4 | July 9, 2025 21:30 | July 9, 2025 23:30 | 2h | 142 | 235 |
| 5 | December 17, 2025 18:00 | December 18, 2025 06:45 | 12h 45m | 125 | 592 |
| 6 | October 5, 2025 12:45 | October 5, 2025 16:45 | 4h | 122 | 389 |
| 7 | July 6, 2025 02:30 | July 6, 2025 09:45 | 7h 15m | 94 | 452 |
| 8 | February 14, 2025 04:15 | February 14, 2025 06:15 | 2h | 52 | 104 |
| 9 | January 22, 2025 21:15 | January 22, 2025 22:45 | 1h 30m | 45 | 25 |
| 10 | February 19, 2025 11:30 | February 19, 2025 14:30 | 3h | 34 | 93 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 6 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 Butte County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butte 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,717 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. Butte County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butte County, SD annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/south-dakota/butte-county