Power outage history
Ziebach County South Dakota
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
2.4× the national median
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 Ziebach's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 24 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Ziebach, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2025 | No storm report | 896 | 65% | 22 h | 30 min | 16k |
| Aug 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,106 | 80% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 5.6k |
| Sep 3, 2025 | No storm report | 1,374 | 100% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.0k |
| Aug 24, 2024 | No storm report | 104 | 8% | 38 h | 37 h | 3.9k |
| Jul 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 542 | 39% | 16 h | 9.5 h | 2.7k |
| Nov 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,374 | 100% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 2.1k |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,103 | 80% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 1.3k |
| Oct 29, 2025 | No storm report | 465 | 34% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 930 |
| Nov 8, 2025 | No storm report | 256 | 19% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 832 |
| Jan 29, 2025 | No storm report | 72 | 5% | 13 h | 13 h | 812 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | No storm report | 287 | 21% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 571 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Windstorm | 255 | 19% | 7.0 h | 1.8 h | 464 |
| Jun 12, 2022 | No storm report | 32 | 2% | 10 h | – | 320 |
| Jun 22, 2024 | No storm report | 170 | 12% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 298 |
| Jul 14, 2021 | No storm report | 31 | 2% | 10 h | – | 294 |
| May 27, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 256 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | No storm report | 34 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 221 |
| Jul 9, 2024 | No storm report | 33 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 206 |
| Aug 28, 2024 | No storm report | 33 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 160 |
| Sep 14, 2024 | No storm report | 107 | 8% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 158 |
| Jan 8, 2019 | No storm report | 32 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 152 |
| Jul 8, 2020 | No storm report | 30 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 142 |
| Jan 24, 2025 | No storm report | 68 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 136 |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 33 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 124 |
| Jul 14, 2025 | No storm report | 465 | 34% | 12 min | 12 min | 116 |
| Jun 21, 2021 | No storm report | 31 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 116 |
| Jan 13, 2019 | No storm report | 32 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 112 |
| Aug 30, 2020 | No storm report | 31 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 108 |
| Jan 30, 2020 | No storm report | 31 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 108 |
| Oct 17, 2024 | No storm report | 44 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 98 |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Ziebach from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 89%
- Thunderstorms 9.5%
- Windstorm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Ziebach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moreau-Grand Electric Coop Inc | SD | – | – | – | 13.2 | 61k |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | SD | – | – | – | 11.7 | 52k |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 24 | 24 | 0.30 | 15.2 | 19k |
| 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.
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 1,374 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 →