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2022 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 1717th 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 Dawes 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 | November 7, 2022 16:45 | November 8, 2022 23:15 | 1d 6h | 2,658 | 18K |
| 2 | July 19, 2022 21:15 | July 20, 2022 01:45 | 4h 30m | 778 | 1,945 |
| 3 | July 22, 2022 19:00 | July 22, 2022 20:15 | 1h 15m | 360 | 91 |
| 4 | April 6, 2022 01:00 | April 6, 2022 04:15 | 3h 15m | 207 | 241 |
| 5 | November 3, 2022 06:45 | November 3, 2022 08:45 | 2h | 44 | 30 |
| 6 | June 19, 2022 03:00 | June 19, 2022 11:15 | 8h 15m | 27 | 144 |
| 7 | August 15, 2022 02:45 | August 15, 2022 06:00 | 3h 15m | 27 | 60 |
| 8 | June 1, 2022 19:45 | June 1, 2022 20:00 | 15m | 23 | 6 |
| 9 | January 31, 2022 19:30 | January 31, 2022 21:15 | 1h 45m | 15 | 26 |
| 10 | March 28, 2022 18:00 | March 28, 2022 18:30 | 30m | 15 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/dawes-county