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2020 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 3,887 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2770th 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 Dawes 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 | August 17, 2020 22:15 | August 18, 2020 00:00 | 1h 45m | 450 | 788 |
| 2 | November 12, 2020 17:30 | November 12, 2020 21:00 | 3h 30m | 437 | 1,524 |
| 3 | June 7, 2020 01:00 | June 7, 2020 11:45 | 10h 45m | 383 | 1,177 |
| 4 | February 12, 2020 19:00 | February 12, 2020 20:00 | 1h | 49 | 49 |
| 5 | May 25, 2020 20:15 | May 26, 2020 00:45 | 4h 30m | 31 | 101 |
| 6 | October 14, 2020 15:15 | October 14, 2020 17:30 | 2h 15m | 31 | 70 |
| 7 | June 25, 2020 20:45 | June 25, 2020 22:15 | 1h 30m | 27 | 41 |
| 8 | August 2, 2020 14:15 | August 2, 2020 15:15 | 1h | 19 | 10 |
| 9 | July 25, 2020 02:15 | July 25, 2020 03:30 | 1h 15m | 16 | 20 |
| 10 | March 13, 2020 16:45 | March 13, 2020 17:00 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 3 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 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 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 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/dawes-county