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2017 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 4,006 customer-hours (Nebraska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2383rd 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 Dawson 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 | December 22, 2017 18:00 | December 22, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 2,166 | 1,087 |
| 2 | December 29, 2017 17:15 | December 29, 2017 23:45 | 6h 30m | 686 | 1,261 |
| 3 | March 24, 2017 14:00 | March 24, 2017 15:00 | 1h | 258 | 129 |
| 4 | August 29, 2017 05:15 | August 29, 2017 08:45 | 3h 30m | 118 | 261 |
| 5 | August 23, 2017 20:15 | August 23, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 95 | 24 |
| 6 | August 14, 2017 06:00 | August 14, 2017 12:45 | 6h 45m | 66 | 178 |
| 7 | November 20, 2017 16:45 | November 22, 2017 14:45 | 1d 22h | 63 | 124 |
| 8 | April 20, 2017 22:00 | April 20, 2017 23:30 | 1h 30m | 48 | 72 |
| 9 | November 15, 2017 08:45 | November 15, 2017 15:00 | 6h 15m | 27 | 59 |
| 10 | March 24, 2017 03:00 | March 24, 2017 05:45 | 2h 45m | 26 | 37 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/dawson-county