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2021 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 9,902 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2728th 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 Dawson 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 | September 12, 2021 13:15 | September 12, 2021 17:15 | 4h | 1,774 | 6,211 |
| 2 | November 1, 2021 11:30 | November 1, 2021 13:45 | 2h 15m | 468 | 1,053 |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 14:00 | February 16, 2021 14:15 | 15m | 146 | 37 |
| 4 | February 7, 2021 16:00 | February 7, 2021 23:00 | 7h | 118 | 441 |
| 5 | August 29, 2021 21:30 | August 30, 2021 03:15 | 5h 45m | 114 | 126 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 14:15 | October 26, 2021 21:00 | 6h 45m | 66 | 446 |
| 7 | October 7, 2021 17:15 | October 7, 2021 18:15 | 1h | 59 | 59 |
| 8 | August 3, 2021 12:30 | August 3, 2021 12:45 | 15m | 56 | 14 |
| 9 | August 3, 2021 16:15 | August 3, 2021 20:30 | 4h 15m | 56 | 238 |
| 10 | March 30, 2021 15:00 | March 30, 2021 18:00 | 3h | 46 | 138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Dawson 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 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/dawson-county