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Who serves Hand County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include South Dakota Rural Electric Association, NorthWestern Energy ↗ and Northern Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Miller also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Hand 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 — Hand County, SD
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
5 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.8 hr (median).
That is longer than the South Dakota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~388 customers out in July 2022, restored after about 8.8 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 Hand County include Miller, St. Lawrence, Ree Heights, Alden, Alpha, Bates, Burdette and Campbell. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
