Davison County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Davison County, South Dakota had 1 major outage from 2020 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.59 times the US outage time per person and 1.20 times the South Dakota rate. It ranks 11 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 4years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 12, 2022, reached 6,327 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.8 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
2020	36,715	17	1
2021	9,744	10	0
2022	44,929	8	0
2023	23,442	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	5.8	6,327	24,885
Jul 26, 2022	2.2	6,153	12,025
Jun 9, 2020	7.0	3,951	11,742
Jun 10, 2020	17.5	707	11,600
Jul 26, 2023	5.5	3,518	10,560

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.