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Who serves Hughes County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include South Dakota Rural Electric Association and NorthWestern Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Pierre 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 — Hughes County, SD
Last significant outage: Jul 25, 2026 — peaked at 214 customers, restored in ~6 hr (heat event).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hughes County, SD
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
18 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.9 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the South Dakota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~428 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 10 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.
Cities we track in Hughes County
Communities in Hughes County include Pierre, Blunt, Harrold, Crow Creek, North Hughes, Oahe Acres, Raber and West Hughes. 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 Hughes County, SD?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hughes include South Dakota Rural Electric Association, NorthWestern Energy and City of Pierre — 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.
