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2024 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 4,381 customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2876th 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 Dawson 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 | June 17, 2024 17:30 | June 19, 2024 14:45 | 1d 21h | 1,068 | 579 |
| 2 | June 15, 2024 04:45 | June 15, 2024 09:00 | 4h 15m | 464 | 700 |
| 3 | January 5, 2024 21:00 | January 5, 2024 21:45 | 45m | 268 | 135 |
| 4 | November 27, 2024 19:00 | November 27, 2024 19:45 | 45m | 166 | 125 |
| 5 | August 25, 2024 02:30 | August 25, 2024 06:30 | 4h | 56 | 58 |
| 6 | August 7, 2024 12:30 | August 7, 2024 15:30 | 3h | 47 | 141 |
| 7 | December 11, 2024 17:30 | December 11, 2024 18:00 | 30m | 47 | 23 |
| 8 | November 24, 2024 13:30 | November 24, 2024 18:00 | 4h 30m | 40 | 180 |
| 9 | June 14, 2024 01:15 | June 14, 2024 02:15 | 1h | 36 | 16 |
| 10 | August 4, 2024 12:15 | August 4, 2024 15:15 | 3h | 32 | 94 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/dawson-county