Lightning strikes in South Dakota by county
The detection network has located 59,238 lightning strikes in South Dakota since the archive began, including 36,741 in the last 7 days. The table counts every strike the network placed inside a county boundary.
| # | County | Strikes | Last 7 days | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Todd County | 4,927 | 1,743 | 8.3% |
| 2 | Mellette County | 3,613 | 2,768 | 6.1% |
| 3 | Campbell County | 3,554 | 3,463 | 6.0% |
| 4 | Meade County | 3,043 | 2,537 | 5.1% |
| 5 | Tripp County | 3,008 | 1,652 | 5.1% |
| 6 | Pennington County | 2,665 | 2,138 | 4.5% |
| 7 | Haakon County | 2,633 | 2,078 | 4.4% |
| 8 | Jackson County | 2,615 | 2,145 | 4.4% |
| 9 | Edmunds County | 2,613 | 2,574 | 4.4% |
| 10 | Harding County | 2,565 | 2,215 | 4.3% |
| 11 | Jones County | 1,945 | 1,642 | 3.3% |
| 12 | Butte County | 1,713 | 1,522 | 2.9% |
| 13 | Spink County | 1,566 | 1,537 | 2.6% |
| 14 | Lyman County | 1,357 | 585 | 2.3% |
| 15 | Perkins County | 1,349 | 1,243 | 2.3% |
| 16 | McPherson County | 1,258 | 945 | 2.1% |
| 17 | Hutchinson County | 1,235 | 27 | 2.1% |
| 18 | Lincoln County | 1,181 | 468 | 2.0% |
| 19 | Faulk County | 1,166 | 1,132 | 2.0% |
| 20 | Gregory County | 974 | 104 | 1.6% |
| 21 | Yankton County | 962 | 246 | 1.6% |
| 22 | Charles Mix County | 855 | 69 | 1.4% |
| 23 | Turner County | 751 | 229 | 1.3% |
| 24 | Ziebach County | 726 | 413 | 1.2% |
| 25 | Corson County | 687 | 485 | 1.2% |
| 26 | Union County | 654 | 200 | 1.1% |
| 27 | Clay County | 651 | 69 | 1.1% |
| 28 | Bennett County | 651 | 255 | 1.1% |
| 29 | Custer County | 627 | 331 | 1.1% |
| 30 | Brule County | 582 | 60 | 1.0% |
| 31 | Shannon County | 575 | 289 | 1.0% |
| 32 | Brown County | 555 | 135 | 0.9% |
| 33 | Fall River County | 543 | 426 | 0.9% |
| 34 | McCook County | 533 | 0 | 0.9% |
| 35 | Douglas County | 493 | 18 | 0.8% |
| 36 | Bon Homme County | 444 | 58 | 0.7% |
| 37 | Stanley County | 277 | 77 | 0.5% |
| 38 | Dewey County | 249 | 132 | 0.4% |
| 39 | Minnehaha County | 234 | 1 | 0.4% |
| 40 | Deuel County | 228 | 0 | 0.4% |
| 41 | Hughes County | 219 | 90 | 0.4% |
| 42 | Kingsbury County | 211 | 0 | 0.4% |
| 43 | Sanborn County | 208 | 0 | 0.4% |
| 44 | Marshall County | 192 | 29 | 0.3% |
| 45 | Hanson County | 171 | 4 | 0.3% |
| 46 | Day County | 163 | 10 | 0.3% |
| 47 | Davison County | 149 | 6 | 0.3% |
| 48 | Potter County | 146 | 138 | 0.2% |
| 49 | Lawrence County | 144 | 16 | 0.2% |
| 50 | Hand County | 140 | 122 | 0.2% |
| 51 | Walworth County | 132 | 80 | 0.2% |
| 52 | Miner County | 127 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 53 | Hamlin County | 123 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 54 | Jerauld County | 121 | 0 | 0.2% |
| 55 | Roberts County | 109 | 2 | 0.2% |
| 56 | Aurora County | 104 | 7 | 0.2% |
| 57 | Clark County | 98 | 95 | 0.2% |
| 58 | Hyde County | 77 | 68 | 0.1% |
| 59 | Sully County | 72 | 35 | 0.1% |
| 60 | Brookings County | 64 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 61 | Beadle County | 52 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 62 | Buffalo County | 51 | 16 | 0.1% |
| 63 | Moody County | 48 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 64 | Lake County | 39 | 0 | 0.1% |
| 65 | Codington County | 16 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 66 | Grant County | 5 | 5 | 0.0% |
Strike positions carry the network's mean location error of about 5.6 km, so strikes near a county line can be filed one county over. Method and caveats are on the data hub; the full state table is on the United States page.
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