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2024 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2772nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 26, 2024 01:30 | August 26, 2024 02:45 | 1h 15m | 3,505 | 1,843 |
| 2 | April 26, 2024 08:30 | April 26, 2024 10:00 | 1h 30m | 3,049 | 4,574 |
| 3 | February 15, 2024 13:15 | February 15, 2024 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,069 | 1,336 |
| 4 | September 6, 2024 17:15 | September 6, 2024 18:45 | 1h 30m | 668 | 1,000 |
| 5 | November 8, 2024 17:30 | November 9, 2024 01:15 | 7h 45m | 309 | 774 |
| 6 | April 24, 2024 18:15 | April 24, 2024 20:15 | 2h | 172 | 344 |
| 7 | August 28, 2024 23:45 | August 29, 2024 04:15 | 4h 30m | 133 | 270 |
| 8 | March 28, 2024 01:00 | March 28, 2024 03:00 | 2h | 129 | 245 |
| 9 | March 28, 2024 21:45 | March 28, 2024 23:30 | 1h 45m | 129 | 226 |
| 10 | September 9, 2024 03:15 | September 9, 2024 08:30 | 5h 15m | 119 | 410 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 10 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 Dakota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 74 min | 0.74 | 74 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/nebraska/dakota-county