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2025 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (South Dakota average 6.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 65 South Dakota counties and 967th 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 Meade 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 19:45 | November 14, 2025 06:15 | 10h 30m | 10,065 | 48K |
| 2 | July 23, 2025 00:30 | July 23, 2025 17:30 | 17h | 5,009 | 4,114 |
| 3 | May 18, 2025 21:15 | May 19, 2025 16:30 | 19h 15m | 4,947 | 5,599 |
| 4 | August 28, 2025 17:45 | August 28, 2025 20:45 | 3h | 2,043 | 3,245 |
| 5 | September 18, 2025 16:15 | September 23, 2025 20:00 | 5d 3h | 761 | 3,415 |
| 6 | February 26, 2025 21:30 | February 27, 2025 00:00 | 2h 30m | 578 | 627 |
| 7 | December 18, 2025 09:00 | December 29, 2025 16:00 | 11d 7h | 519 | 21K |
| 8 | July 19, 2025 13:45 | July 19, 2025 19:30 | 5h 45m | 451 | 2,253 |
| 9 | July 10, 2025 15:00 | July 10, 2025 17:45 | 2h 45m | 445 | 113 |
| 10 | July 11, 2025 13:45 | July 15, 2025 23:30 | 4d 9h | 444 | 2,671 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 24 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 Meade 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/meade-county