Brookings County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Brookings County, South Dakota had 1 major outage from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.64 times the South Dakota rate. It ranks 22 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 6years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 92% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 12, 2022, reached 3,433 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	1,086	1	0
2019	4,326	4	0
2020	3,468	7	0
2021	3,492	8	0
2022	150,715	11	1
2023	4,218	10	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
May 12, 2022	91.0	3,433	143,977
Apr 23, 2022	2.8	1,865	3,726
Jul 20, 2019	5.0	858	3,296
May 25, 2021	1.5	2,002	2,078
Jul 21, 2020	1.5	2,232	1,870

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.