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2023 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 4,623 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2726th 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 Dawes 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 | May 12, 2023 15:15 | May 12, 2023 16:30 | 1h 15m | 1,820 | 2,275 |
| 2 | August 1, 2023 13:15 | August 1, 2023 19:45 | 6h 30m | 216 | 911 |
| 3 | March 6, 2023 19:15 | March 6, 2023 21:30 | 2h 15m | 78 | 176 |
| 4 | August 22, 2023 20:15 | August 22, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 60 | 90 |
| 5 | June 14, 2023 14:15 | June 14, 2023 14:30 | 15m | 44 | 11 |
| 6 | September 29, 2023 09:30 | September 29, 2023 17:00 | 7h 30m | 44 | 112 |
| 7 | January 14, 2023 18:15 | January 14, 2023 22:15 | 4h | 34 | 136 |
| 8 | May 18, 2023 14:15 | May 18, 2023 22:00 | 7h 45m | 30 | 232 |
| 9 | April 20, 2023 16:15 | April 20, 2023 18:00 | 1h 45m | 29 | 51 |
| 10 | September 29, 2023 01:15 | September 29, 2023 07:30 | 6h 15m | 27 | 122 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2023; 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, 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/dawes-county