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2025 Dakota County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dakota County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 9,017 customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2867th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dakota County, 2025
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 6, 2025 19:30 | August 6, 2025 20:15 | 45m | 2,674 | 2,005 |
| 2 | March 19, 2025 12:00 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 1d 8h | 1,280 | 5,083 |
| 3 | June 14, 2025 00:00 | June 14, 2025 01:15 | 1h 15m | 209 | 235 |
| 4 | April 23, 2025 22:30 | April 23, 2025 23:15 | 45m | 131 | 98 |
| 5 | December 4, 2025 03:00 | December 4, 2025 04:45 | 1h 45m | 74 | 111 |
| 6 | July 30, 2025 02:30 | July 30, 2025 05:00 | 2h 30m | 65 | 71 |
| 7 | August 4, 2025 15:00 | August 4, 2025 16:15 | 1h 15m | 60 | 61 |
| 8 | May 2, 2025 14:15 | May 2, 2025 15:15 | 1h | 59 | 59 |
| 9 | July 11, 2025 10:15 | July 11, 2025 11:00 | 45m | 51 | 26 |
| 10 | November 6, 2025 20:15 | November 6, 2025 21:30 | 1h 15m | 44 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 4 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/nebraska/dakota-county