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2020 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 8,675 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2765th 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 Dawson 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 | October 5, 2020 13:45 | October 5, 2020 20:00 | 6h 15m | 1,732 | 3,511 |
| 2 | July 14, 2020 03:30 | July 14, 2020 07:45 | 4h 15m | 1,196 | 2,705 |
| 3 | January 18, 2020 06:00 | January 18, 2020 06:45 | 45m | 1,186 | 890 |
| 4 | November 9, 2020 00:30 | November 9, 2020 00:45 | 15m | 687 | 172 |
| 5 | December 20, 2020 07:00 | December 20, 2020 08:00 | 1h | 137 | 70 |
| 6 | November 24, 2020 13:00 | November 24, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 117 | 171 |
| 7 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | July 6, 2020 21:45 | 30m | 112 | 56 |
| 8 | October 13, 2020 15:00 | October 13, 2020 15:30 | 30m | 106 | 53 |
| 9 | August 2, 2020 15:00 | August 2, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 78 | 40 |
| 10 | October 28, 2020 19:15 | October 28, 2020 20:00 | 45m | 75 | 38 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 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/dawson-county