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2024 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 3,777 customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2806th 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 Dawes 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 | October 2, 2024 19:45 | October 2, 2024 21:45 | 2h | 301 | 560 |
| 2 | April 7, 2024 08:45 | April 8, 2024 22:15 | 1d 13h | 187 | 1,873 |
| 3 | May 2, 2024 14:00 | May 2, 2024 16:45 | 2h 45m | 67 | 184 |
| 4 | May 15, 2024 14:15 | May 15, 2024 16:15 | 2h | 67 | 38 |
| 5 | October 3, 2024 15:30 | October 3, 2024 19:15 | 3h 45m | 44 | 165 |
| 6 | April 4, 2024 15:30 | April 4, 2024 18:30 | 3h | 17 | 51 |
| 7 | September 23, 2024 14:45 | September 23, 2024 15:30 | 45m | 17 | 13 |
| 8 | May 31, 2024 02:15 | May 31, 2024 03:30 | 1h 15m | 16 | 20 |
| 9 | January 31, 2024 17:15 | February 1, 2024 22:45 | 1d 5h | 14 | 240 |
| 10 | May 19, 2024 06:30 | May 19, 2024 08:45 | 2h 15m | 14 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/dawes-county