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2018 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,089 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2628th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dawes County, 2018
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 28, 2018 05:30 | May 28, 2018 07:30 | 2h | 64 | 128 |
| 2 | May 17, 2018 14:00 | May 17, 2018 20:00 | 6h | 43 | 253 |
| 3 | December 20, 2018 14:45 | December 20, 2018 18:45 | 4h | 36 | 123 |
| 4 | May 3, 2018 16:15 | May 3, 2018 18:15 | 2h | 15 | 30 |
| 5 | May 24, 2018 15:30 | May 24, 2018 20:15 | 4h 45m | 14 | 67 |
| 6 | January 13, 2018 03:45 | January 13, 2018 06:45 | 3h | 12 | 28 |
| 7 | May 19, 2018 05:45 | May 19, 2018 09:00 | 3h 15m | 12 | 20 |
| 8 | June 1, 2018 04:45 | June 1, 2018 09:15 | 4h 30m | 12 | 43 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 15:30 | May 1, 2018 17:15 | 1h 45m | 11 | 19 |
| 10 | April 19, 2018 01:45 | April 19, 2018 04:00 | 2h 15m | 9 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.74 | 49 min | 0.60 |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 2.75 | 7.1 hrs | 2.66 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Niobrara Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/nebraska/dawes-county