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2020 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,857 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2941st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 4, 2020 09:00 | June 4, 2020 20:15 | 11h 15m | 213 | 854 |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 16:00 | June 10, 2020 17:00 | 1h | 58 | 19 |
| 3 | June 6, 2020 00:45 | June 6, 2020 01:45 | 1h | 53 | 40 |
| 4 | November 6, 2020 14:30 | November 11, 2020 19:45 | 5d 5h | 33 | 233 |
| 5 | September 25, 2020 23:45 | September 26, 2020 03:45 | 4h | 32 | 52 |
| 6 | October 10, 2020 13:00 | October 10, 2020 17:00 | 4h | 32 | 51 |
| 7 | November 5, 2020 15:15 | November 5, 2020 17:45 | 2h 30m | 30 | 75 |
| 8 | July 8, 2020 16:30 | July 8, 2020 19:00 | 2h 30m | 26 | 38 |
| 9 | August 30, 2020 12:30 | August 30, 2020 13:45 | 1h 15m | 23 | 29 |
| 10 | October 28, 2020 14:00 | October 28, 2020 18:30 | 4h 30m | 23 | 104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Dakota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 80 min | 0.78 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/nebraska/dakota-county