Moody County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Moody County, South Dakota had 3 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 2.25 times the South Dakota rate. It ranks 4 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

2 of 6years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 96% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 11, 2019, reached 921 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 103.5 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
2018	576	2	0
2019	57,412	5	2
2020	2,544	6	0
2021	526	2	0
2022	43,716	5	1
2023	1,257	3	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
Apr 11, 2019	103.5	921	52,932
May 12, 2022	51.2	1,528	43,235
Apr 15, 2019	13.2	254	3,182
May 9, 2019	2.0	509	1,014
Dec 8, 2020	1.8	476	832

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.