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2019 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,394 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2760th 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 Dawes 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 | April 10, 2019 14:30 | April 10, 2019 15:45 | 1h 15m | 747 | 934 |
| 2 | December 1, 2019 04:45 | December 1, 2019 09:15 | 4h 30m | 47 | 189 |
| 3 | November 13, 2019 16:00 | November 13, 2019 16:15 | 15m | 24 | 6 |
| 4 | September 4, 2019 20:00 | September 4, 2019 21:15 | 1h 15m | 23 | 29 |
| 5 | August 20, 2019 03:00 | August 20, 2019 05:00 | 2h | 18 | 36 |
| 6 | December 2, 2019 11:00 | December 2, 2019 12:45 | 1h 45m | 14 | 25 |
| 7 | January 1, 2019 15:30 | January 1, 2019 19:00 | 3h 30m | 13 | 16 |
| 8 | January 30, 2019 06:15 | January 30, 2019 09:00 | 2h 45m | 12 | 28 |
| 9 | March 6, 2019 12:45 | March 6, 2019 14:30 | 1h 45m | 10 | 18 |
| 10 | February 9, 2019 19:15 | February 9, 2019 20:30 | 1h 15m | 8 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 1 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 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 |
| 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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; 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, 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/dawes-county