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

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

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Elsewhere in South Dakota: 102 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 10:31 PM CDT.

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Who serves Sanborn County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Central Electric Cooperative, Xcel Energy and NorthWestern Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. 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 — Sanborn County, SD

Last significant outage: Aug 10, 2026 — peaked at 565 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Sanborn County, SD

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 21 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: ~1,317 customers out in July 2022, restored after about 7.3 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 Sanborn County include Woonsocket, Letcher, Artesian, Afton, Benedict, Butler, Diana and Elliott. 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 Sanborn County, SD?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Sanborn include Central Electric Cooperative, Xcel Energy and NorthWestern Energy — 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

Miner County · Davison County · Jerauld County · Hanson County · Beadle County · Aurora County · Kingsbury County · McCook County

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