When will the power be back in Butte County, SD?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · South Dakota
87
customers reported out in Butte County, SD
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~2.9 hr start to finish (4 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 9:35 PM MDT.
8787 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 33 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Grand — 87 customers reported out
⚡ No power in Butte, SD? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
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Who serves Butte County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include South Dakota Rural Electric Association and Black Hills Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Butte County, SD
Last significant outage: Aug 30, 2026 — peaked at 496 customers, restored in ~3.5 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Butte County, SD
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
27 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 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: ~3,573 customers out in November 2025, restored after about 4 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Butte County include Belle Fourche, Newell, Nisland, Fruitdale, East Butte, Union, Vale and West Butte. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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