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2023 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 7,628 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2829th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 17, 2023 18:30 | October 17, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 7,702 | 1,926 |
| 2 | April 7, 2023 23:15 | April 8, 2023 01:45 | 2h 30m | 972 | 2,162 |
| 3 | June 3, 2023 21:45 | June 3, 2023 23:00 | 1h 15m | 557 | 696 |
| 4 | February 15, 2023 11:45 | February 15, 2023 12:00 | 15m | 556 | 139 |
| 5 | June 13, 2023 11:45 | June 13, 2023 12:30 | 45m | 544 | 273 |
| 6 | February 27, 2023 04:30 | February 27, 2023 10:15 | 5h 45m | 439 | 297 |
| 7 | July 12, 2023 10:30 | July 12, 2023 13:15 | 2h 45m | 407 | 410 |
| 8 | December 10, 2023 08:15 | December 10, 2023 11:15 | 3h | 59 | 156 |
| 9 | September 9, 2023 04:15 | September 9, 2023 06:45 | 2h 30m | 52 | 126 |
| 10 | September 11, 2023 16:00 | September 11, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 50 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 Dakota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 70 min | 0.60 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| 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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/nebraska/dakota-county