Beadle County, South Dakota Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Beadle County, South Dakota had 3 major outages from 2020 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 2.18 times the South Dakota rate. It ranks 5 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

1 of 4years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 5, 2022, reached 5,082 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2020	42,697	12	0
2021	17,041	8	0
2022	118,794	12	3
2023	25,734	8	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
Jul 5, 2022	30.2	5,082	57,659
May 12, 2022	11.0	6,956	44,207
Jun 18, 2020	6.5	7,612	21,692
Jan 13, 2023	2.8	7,861	16,473
May 13, 2022	13.2	1,111	7,428

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.