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2022 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 1701st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 13, 2022 21:15 | March 14, 2022 14:00 | 16h 45m | 3,498 | 59K |
| 2 | March 13, 2022 14:30 | March 13, 2022 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,731 | 2,939 |
| 3 | September 11, 2022 06:45 | September 11, 2022 09:00 | 2h 15m | 62 | 75 |
| 4 | May 24, 2022 03:30 | May 24, 2022 06:00 | 2h 30m | 56 | 115 |
| 5 | June 15, 2022 10:45 | June 15, 2022 15:00 | 4h 15m | 48 | 137 |
| 6 | July 10, 2022 20:15 | July 11, 2022 03:45 | 7h 30m | 48 | 289 |
| 7 | July 16, 2022 23:30 | July 17, 2022 04:00 | 4h 30m | 48 | 132 |
| 8 | March 16, 2022 16:00 | March 16, 2022 16:15 | 15m | 47 | 12 |
| 9 | August 9, 2022 15:15 | August 9, 2022 15:30 | 15m | 47 | 12 |
| 10 | July 4, 2022 11:15 | July 4, 2022 13:15 | 2h | 41 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 | 78 min | 0.81 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/nebraska/dakota-county