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2016 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 1344th 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 Dawes 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 | May 9, 2016 16:00 | May 9, 2016 18:45 | 2h 45m | 1,963 | 984 |
| 2 | June 28, 2016 23:15 | June 30, 2016 02:00 | 1d 2h | 1,827 | 8,952 |
| 3 | April 5, 2016 23:45 | April 6, 2016 02:15 | 2h 30m | 63 | 104 |
| 4 | April 19, 2016 16:15 | April 19, 2016 19:45 | 3h 30m | 63 | 155 |
| 5 | June 8, 2016 03:15 | June 8, 2016 04:45 | 1h 30m | 58 | 27 |
| 6 | December 26, 2016 23:30 | December 27, 2016 02:00 | 2h 30m | 46 | 115 |
| 7 | April 1, 2016 17:15 | April 1, 2016 18:15 | 1h | 39 | 33 |
| 8 | November 9, 2016 16:30 | November 9, 2016 18:15 | 1h 45m | 38 | 56 |
| 9 | July 27, 2016 01:15 | July 27, 2016 03:00 | 1h 45m | 33 | 34 |
| 10 | November 24, 2016 06:00 | November 24, 2016 08:45 | 2h 45m | 33 | 91 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Dawes 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Niobrara Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,555 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. Dawes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawes 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/dawes-county