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2022 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2579th 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 Dawson 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 5, 2022 20:15 | March 6, 2022 01:30 | 5h 15m | 3,573 | 6,462 |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 19:00 | May 13, 2022 18:30 | 23h 30m | 1,336 | 6,881 |
| 3 | March 5, 2022 18:00 | March 5, 2022 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,277 | 321 |
| 4 | December 22, 2022 14:15 | December 22, 2022 15:15 | 1h | 528 | 528 |
| 5 | July 23, 2022 22:15 | July 23, 2022 22:30 | 15m | 142 | 36 |
| 6 | June 25, 2022 05:15 | June 25, 2022 05:30 | 15m | 141 | 35 |
| 7 | May 7, 2022 18:15 | May 7, 2022 19:30 | 1h 15m | 118 | 90 |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 00:30 | December 23, 2022 05:00 | 4h 30m | 78 | 172 |
| 9 | June 13, 2022 01:15 | June 13, 2022 03:45 | 2h 30m | 71 | 121 |
| 10 | May 25, 2022 14:30 | May 25, 2022 16:30 | 2h | 52 | 104 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 7 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 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/dawson-county