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2019 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2515th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 8, 2019 20:00 | January 8, 2019 20:30 | 30m | 2,730 | 685 |
| 2 | December 5, 2019 16:45 | December 5, 2019 21:00 | 4h 15m | 1,032 | 590 |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 21:30 | January 10, 2019 01:00 | 3h 30m | 961 | 263 |
| 4 | July 1, 2019 16:00 | July 1, 2019 20:00 | 4h | 826 | 210 |
| 5 | September 11, 2019 16:30 | September 11, 2019 18:45 | 2h 15m | 279 | 72 |
| 6 | November 27, 2019 10:15 | November 27, 2019 13:30 | 3h 15m | 64 | 206 |
| 7 | January 16, 2019 19:15 | January 16, 2019 23:00 | 3h 45m | 60 | 67 |
| 8 | June 12, 2019 01:30 | June 12, 2019 03:30 | 2h | 59 | 63 |
| 9 | June 13, 2019 13:15 | June 13, 2019 13:30 | 15m | 59 | 15 |
| 10 | July 1, 2019 08:30 | July 1, 2019 10:45 | 2h 15m | 59 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 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 Dakota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| 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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/nebraska/dakota-county