Power Out Map
– 0% of Miner out 0 customers out in South Dakota

Power outage history

Miner County South Dakota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 85% of customers out · 90% back in 2.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 4.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.9days Dec 4, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 1,069 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Miner's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Miner, hours without power per customer

MinerUS median countySouth Dakota average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 SD 4.8

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
May 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 904 85% 2.2 d 2.0 d 21k
Jul 5, 2022 Thunderstorms 515 48% 25 h 23 h 4.8k
Apr 11, 2019 Winter storm 179 17% 25 h 17 h 3.1k
Apr 4, 2023 Ice storm 238 22% 16 h 16 h 3.0k
Dec 4, 2020 No storm report 35 3% 2.9 d – 2.4k
Sep 12, 2019 Flooding 346 32% 6.8 h 1.5 h 2.2k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 350 33% 8.2 h 8.5 h 2.0k
Jun 11, 2025 No storm report 339 32% 5.8 h 5.8 h 1.9k
Feb 23, 2022 Winter storm 346 32% 6.0 h 6.5 h 1.7k
Apr 28, 2025 No storm report 235 22% 5.8 h 2.0 h 1.3k
Aug 29, 2025 No storm report 341 32% 3.5 h 3.5 h 1.2k
Jan 25, 2020 No storm report 242 23% 4.0 h 4.0 h 968

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Miner from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 52%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Winter storm 8.8%
  • Ice storm 5.4%
  • Flooding 4.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Miner

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole South Dakota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Investor Owned 160 58 0.88 13.1 94k
Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop Cooperative 59 59 1.64 13.9 23k
Southeastern Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 24 24 – 13.0 21k
City of Howard SD – – – – 7.3k
Central Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.7 6.5k
Dakota Energy Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 16.3 3.2k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across South Dakota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 1,069 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →