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2016 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,528 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 2041st 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 Dawson 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 | June 4, 2016 08:00 | June 4, 2016 10:00 | 2h | 1,079 | 1,906 |
| 2 | March 1, 2016 23:15 | March 2, 2016 00:00 | 45m | 697 | 522 |
| 3 | October 7, 2016 18:45 | October 7, 2016 22:30 | 3h 45m | 691 | 531 |
| 4 | February 2, 2016 16:00 | February 3, 2016 21:15 | 1d 5h | 467 | 1,084 |
| 5 | August 23, 2016 12:30 | August 23, 2016 17:00 | 4h 30m | 163 | 407 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 12:15 | July 8, 2016 13:00 | 45m | 78 | 40 |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 16:00 | April 7, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 43 | 11 |
| 8 | July 26, 2016 14:15 | July 26, 2016 21:45 | 7h 30m | 33 | 95 |
| 9 | September 1, 2016 03:15 | September 1, 2016 08:00 | 4h 45m | 26 | 45 |
| 10 | December 21, 2016 11:30 | December 21, 2016 14:45 | 3h 15m | 25 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/dawson-county