Lincoln County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, South Dakota had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.12 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the South Dakota rate. It ranks 27 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

25 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 28, 2021, reached 3,006 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	4,767	6	0
2016	2,217	8	0
2017	1,505	3	0
2018	4,179	4	0
2019	37,930	9	0
2020	22,480	20	0
2021	63,724	19	1
2022	37,452	22	0
2023	22,846	22	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
Aug 28, 2021	25.2	3,006	45,665
Sep 11, 2019	6.8	5,725	17,500
Dec 19, 2023	3.0	7,969	13,710
Aug 16, 2019	5.2	2,904	12,417
Jul 5, 2022	3.2	3,986	8,763

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.