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2018 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,630 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2513th 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 Dawson 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 | February 12, 2018 17:15 | February 12, 2018 17:30 | 15m | 1,632 | 408 |
| 2 | April 14, 2018 09:45 | April 14, 2018 15:30 | 5h 45m | 1,028 | 3,600 |
| 3 | May 9, 2018 14:15 | May 9, 2018 18:15 | 4h | 84 | 336 |
| 4 | May 27, 2018 14:45 | May 27, 2018 17:30 | 2h 45m | 48 | 74 |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 15:00 | April 4, 2018 18:00 | 3h | 41 | 123 |
| 6 | March 14, 2018 13:15 | March 14, 2018 17:45 | 4h 30m | 32 | 144 |
| 7 | March 9, 2018 14:45 | March 9, 2018 17:15 | 2h 30m | 26 | 65 |
| 8 | March 13, 2018 13:15 | March 13, 2018 16:00 | 2h 45m | 26 | 72 |
| 9 | June 12, 2018 15:30 | June 12, 2018 18:00 | 2h 30m | 20 | 50 |
| 10 | March 28, 2018 16:15 | March 28, 2018 22:00 | 5h 45m | 15 | 58 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 2 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; 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, 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/dawson-county