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2021 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 4,693 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2715th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dawes County, 2021
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 11, 2021 20:00 | April 11, 2021 23:30 | 3h 30m | 1,027 | 2,281 |
| 2 | October 13, 2021 19:15 | October 13, 2021 22:15 | 3h | 468 | 124 |
| 3 | July 12, 2021 17:00 | July 12, 2021 20:30 | 3h 30m | 344 | 162 |
| 4 | December 24, 2021 03:15 | December 24, 2021 18:00 | 14h 45m | 229 | 938 |
| 5 | October 13, 2021 14:45 | October 13, 2021 18:30 | 3h 45m | 79 | 295 |
| 6 | March 30, 2021 14:15 | March 30, 2021 17:30 | 3h 15m | 76 | 247 |
| 7 | August 11, 2021 15:45 | August 11, 2021 20:30 | 4h 45m | 56 | 57 |
| 8 | November 22, 2021 18:00 | November 22, 2021 19:15 | 1h 15m | 34 | 43 |
| 9 | July 4, 2021 20:00 | July 4, 2021 20:15 | 15m | 33 | 8 |
| 10 | August 13, 2021 16:15 | August 13, 2021 16:30 | 15m | 33 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.14 | 71 min | 0.66 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/nebraska/dawes-county