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2017 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,683 customer-hours (Nebraska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2321st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2017
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 14, 2017 02:15 | June 14, 2017 06:45 | 4h 30m | 2,733 | 3,500 |
| 2 | November 14, 2017 06:15 | November 14, 2017 06:30 | 15m | 832 | 208 |
| 3 | October 15, 2017 16:45 | October 15, 2017 18:45 | 2h | 321 | 642 |
| 4 | July 21, 2017 14:45 | July 21, 2017 23:45 | 9h | 201 | 1,147 |
| 5 | January 22, 2017 14:45 | January 22, 2017 16:00 | 1h 15m | 164 | 205 |
| 6 | December 6, 2017 04:00 | December 6, 2017 09:30 | 5h 30m | 161 | 332 |
| 7 | December 27, 2017 10:45 | December 27, 2017 15:30 | 4h 45m | 161 | 356 |
| 8 | January 11, 2017 15:00 | January 11, 2017 15:15 | 15m | 71 | 18 |
| 9 | October 12, 2017 16:15 | October 12, 2017 17:15 | 1h | 62 | 31 |
| 10 | July 11, 2017 16:45 | July 19, 2017 19:15 | 8d 2h | 60 | 335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.83 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/nebraska/dakota-county