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2015 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,548 customer-hours (Nebraska average 0.8 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2309th 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 Dawson 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 | September 15, 2015 22:30 | September 15, 2015 23:00 | 30m | 2,031 | 1,016 |
| 2 | June 29, 2015 13:30 | June 29, 2015 13:45 | 15m | 92 | 23 |
| 3 | August 19, 2015 01:45 | August 19, 2015 04:15 | 2h 30m | 53 | 81 |
| 4 | October 31, 2015 21:45 | October 31, 2015 23:00 | 1h 15m | 45 | 13 |
| 5 | September 16, 2015 21:00 | September 16, 2015 22:00 | 1h | 36 | 21 |
| 6 | August 19, 2015 13:45 | August 19, 2015 18:15 | 4h 30m | 17 | 77 |
| 7 | July 16, 2015 21:45 | July 16, 2015 23:30 | 1h 45m | 13 | 17 |
| 8 | October 13, 2015 13:30 | October 13, 2015 18:15 | 4h 45m | 11 | 52 |
| 9 | September 2, 2015 13:45 | September 2, 2015 17:30 | 3h 45m | 10 | 33 |
| 10 | September 10, 2015 15:15 | September 10, 2015 17:30 | 2h 15m | 10 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 1 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 Dawson 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 |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dawson Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gothenburg - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lexington - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cozad Board of Public Works | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,044 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county