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2015 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 8,056 customer-hours (Nebraska average 0.8 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2083rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 18, 2015 04:30 | July 18, 2015 09:30 | 5h | 1,638 | 3,249 |
| 2 | July 22, 2015 14:45 | July 22, 2015 15:00 | 15m | 462 | 116 |
| 3 | July 23, 2015 19:00 | July 23, 2015 19:30 | 30m | 161 | 81 |
| 4 | July 30, 2015 20:30 | July 30, 2015 22:30 | 2h | 76 | 23 |
| 5 | October 7, 2015 16:45 | October 7, 2015 19:15 | 2h 30m | 55 | 72 |
| 6 | December 18, 2015 07:00 | December 18, 2015 15:00 | 8h | 55 | 197 |
| 7 | July 14, 2015 14:30 | July 17, 2015 15:15 | 3d | 54 | 3,845 |
| 8 | August 10, 2015 04:00 | August 10, 2015 05:30 | 1h 30m | 51 | 27 |
| 9 | February 5, 2015 05:30 | February 5, 2015 08:15 | 2h 45m | 46 | 85 |
| 10 | September 17, 2015 03:00 | September 17, 2015 03:15 | 15m | 39 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Dakota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2015 | 44 min | 0.60 | 44 min | 0.60 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northeast Power | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Emerson - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of South Sioux City | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,046 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Dakota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dakota County, NE annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/nebraska/dakota-county