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2016 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,866 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 2039th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 00:15 | October 8, 2016 02:45 | 2h 30m | 965 | 1,311 |
| 2 | March 23, 2016 13:00 | March 23, 2016 14:00 | 1h | 814 | 348 |
| 3 | June 18, 2016 03:15 | June 19, 2016 04:30 | 1d 1h | 687 | 3,195 |
| 4 | December 26, 2016 03:30 | December 26, 2016 05:30 | 2h | 478 | 491 |
| 5 | March 28, 2016 14:00 | March 28, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 319 | 80 |
| 6 | June 27, 2016 21:30 | June 28, 2016 02:15 | 4h 45m | 253 | 216 |
| 7 | June 27, 2016 18:15 | June 27, 2016 20:30 | 2h 15m | 195 | 207 |
| 8 | August 23, 2016 18:00 | August 24, 2016 00:45 | 6h 45m | 164 | 338 |
| 9 | August 11, 2016 23:15 | August 12, 2016 04:45 | 5h 30m | 97 | 197 |
| 10 | October 14, 2016 02:15 | October 14, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 71 | 141 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 67 min | 0.70 | 53 min | 0.62 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/nebraska/dakota-county