South Dakota power outages

Live outages across South Dakota from , updated every 10 minutes. 0 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

No outages reported

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

0customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

Share of customers unknown

At least one utility here doesn't publish how many customers it serves in this area, so we can't show a percentage.

Updated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Northern States Power Co - Minnesotano live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Montana-Dakota Utilities Cono live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Otter Tail Power Cono live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Outage history in South Dakota

2014–2025 record

South Dakota averaged 9 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 11. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 2.6 days, starting December 18, 2025.

The largest on record began November 13, 2025, with 76,306 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in June.

9significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

1.5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

2.6 dayslongest on record (December 2025)

76,306most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
November 13, 2025	76,306	7 hours	271,961
May 12, 2022	50,827	2.2 days	1,058,962
July 5, 2022	37,987	27 hours	274,508
December 18, 2025	32,932	2.6 days	822,203
April 25, 2024	27,312	45 minutes	12,105

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in South Dakota

Utilities

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota no live feed
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co no live feed
Otter Tail Power Co no live feed
Nebraska Public Power District no live feed
Black Hills Power, Inc. no live feed
NorthWestern Energy - (SD) no live feed
Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop no live feed
Southeastern Electric Coop Inc - (SD) no live feed