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2023 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 5,411 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2827th 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 Dawson 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 | September 29, 2023 22:30 | September 29, 2023 22:45 | 15m | 2,391 | 598 |
| 2 | January 3, 2023 04:15 | January 3, 2023 08:15 | 4h | 681 | 1,995 |
| 3 | April 28, 2023 05:00 | April 28, 2023 08:00 | 3h | 469 | 535 |
| 4 | September 22, 2023 00:45 | September 22, 2023 02:15 | 1h 30m | 464 | 696 |
| 5 | July 16, 2023 21:00 | July 17, 2023 00:30 | 3h 30m | 143 | 501 |
| 6 | February 19, 2023 15:15 | February 19, 2023 22:15 | 7h | 91 | 155 |
| 7 | August 15, 2023 14:15 | August 15, 2023 17:15 | 3h | 67 | 69 |
| 8 | March 7, 2023 16:30 | March 7, 2023 19:00 | 2h 30m | 56 | 140 |
| 9 | May 25, 2023 18:45 | May 25, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 53 | 61 |
| 10 | July 1, 2023 20:45 | July 1, 2023 23:15 | 2h 30m | 52 | 22 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Dawson 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 |
| Custer Public Power District | 2023 | 89 min | 0.80 | 82 min | 0.58 |
| Southern 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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2023; 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, 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/dawson-county