McPherson County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

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McPherson County, South Dakota had 3 major outages from 2017 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 7 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

1 of 7years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 83% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 24, 2021, reached 256 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 86.0 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
2017	486	2	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	72	1	0
2020	3,891	11	0
2021	43,863	14	3
2022	2,728	6	0
2023	1,212	5	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
Oct 24, 2021	86.0	256	21,644
Oct 21, 2021	53.2	260	13,194
Oct 21, 2021	16.0	260	4,061
Feb 4, 2021	4.0	608	2,417
Jul 18, 2020	1.5	632	946

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.
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