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

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

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

Updated 9:30 PM CDT.

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Who serves Lincoln County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Southeastern Electric Cooperative, Xcel Energy and Sioux Valley Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. MidAmerican Energy Co and City of Beresford 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Lincoln 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 — Lincoln County, SD

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 135 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. 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: ~14,526 customers out in April 2024, restored after about 1 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 Lincoln County

Harrisburg

Communities in Lincoln County include Harrisburg, Tea, Canton, Lennox, Worthing, Hudson, Fairview and Brooklyn. 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 Lincoln County, SD?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lincoln include Southeastern Electric Cooperative, Xcel Energy, Sioux Valley Energy 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.

Nearby counties & areas

Turner County · Minnehaha County · Clay County · Union County · Yankton County · McCook County · Moody County · Hutchinson County

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