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Who serves Roberts County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Otter Tail Power ↗ and South Dakota Rural Electric Association, 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 — Roberts County, SD
Last significant outage: Jul 31, 2026 — peaked at 369 customers, restored in ~2.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.2 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 — Roberts County, SD
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
61 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 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: ~1,175 customers out in March 2023, restored after about 3.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Roberts County include Sisseton, Wilmot, Rosholt, Summit, New Effington, Peever, Claire City and Corona. 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 Roberts County, SD?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Roberts include Otter Tail Power and South Dakota Rural Electric Association — 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.
