When will the power be back in Brookings County, SD?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Brookings County, SD right now.

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Elsewhere in South Dakota: 125 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 3:45 PM CDT.

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Who serves Brookings County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include South Dakota Rural Electric Association, Sioux Valley Energy and Otter Tail Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Brookings, City of Volga, City of Arlington and 1 other also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Brookings County, SD

No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.

Longer-term outage history — Brookings County, SD

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 53 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the South Dakota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.

Largest on record: ~3,433 customers out in May 2022, restored after about 3.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Cities we track in Brookings County

Brookings

Communities in Brookings County include Volga, Aurora, Elkton, White, Bruce, Sinai, Bushnell and Afton. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Brookings County, SD?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Brookings include South Dakota Rural Electric Association, Sioux Valley Energy, Otter Tail Power and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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