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2017 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Nebraska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 720th 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 Dawes 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 | March 9, 2017 02:45 | March 9, 2017 05:15 | 2h 30m | 2,891 | 6,619 |
| 2 | March 29, 2017 20:30 | March 29, 2017 21:15 | 45m | 2,885 | 2,164 |
| 3 | July 18, 2017 07:15 | July 18, 2017 09:15 | 2h | 2,858 | 5,228 |
| 4 | July 27, 2017 20:00 | July 28, 2017 03:45 | 7h 45m | 2,857 | 22K |
| 5 | August 10, 2017 14:00 | August 10, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 2,855 | 714 |
| 6 | April 27, 2017 21:45 | April 28, 2017 00:00 | 2h 15m | 768 | 1,376 |
| 7 | May 15, 2017 05:30 | May 15, 2017 20:30 | 15h | 642 | 1,344 |
| 8 | April 15, 2017 13:45 | April 15, 2017 16:00 | 2h 15m | 389 | 875 |
| 9 | April 28, 2017 00:45 | April 28, 2017 01:15 | 30m | 260 | 130 |
| 10 | November 28, 2017 17:00 | November 28, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 64 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/dawes-county