Power Outages in Buffalo County, SD
No live outage feed is available for Buffalo County, SD yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.2 hours.
Buffalo County, SD is served by local tracked utilities.
Buffalo County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Buffalo County has been under 21 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×21
Hardest-hit cities in Buffalo County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Buffalo County went about 1.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 639 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 633 customers out) · decade average 2.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 33 | 165 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | 633 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 49 | 639 | 4.8 |
| 2022 | 49 | 84 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 29 | 56 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 34 | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 34 | 59 | 1.2 |
Relatively Low ice storms exposure · 2.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Buffalo County: FAQ
- How often does Buffalo County, SD lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Buffalo County, SD logged 34 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Buffalo County, SD?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 639 customers without power, beginning April 19, 2021 and lasting about 1h 15m.
- Is there a power outage in Buffalo County, SD right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Buffalo County, SD. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Buffalo County.
57339, 57341
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/46017 and /api/v1/counties/46017/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of South Dakota customers).