⚡ No power in Harding, 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.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include South Dakota Rural Electric Association and Montana-Dakota Utilities, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Southeast Electric Cooperative 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 — Harding County, SD
Last significant outage: Aug 30, 2026 — peaked at 364 customers, restored in ~20.8 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 18.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 30, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Harding County, SD
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
48 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.9 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in winter.
Largest on record: an outage in July 2022, restored after about 8 hr. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source.
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 Harding County include Buffalo, Camp Crook, North Harding and South Harding. 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 Harding County, SD?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Harding include South Dakota Rural Electric Association, Montana-Dakota Utilities and Southeast Electric Cooperative — 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.
