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2025 Dawes County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dawes County, NE went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 8,421 customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2606th 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 Dawes 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 | May 21, 2025 06:15 | May 21, 2025 10:00 | 3h 45m | 2,246 | 6,228 |
| 2 | September 19, 2025 01:00 | September 19, 2025 01:15 | 15m | 490 | 123 |
| 3 | October 7, 2025 12:15 | October 7, 2025 12:30 | 15m | 490 | 123 |
| 4 | May 26, 2025 20:15 | May 26, 2025 21:15 | 1h | 320 | 319 |
| 5 | November 26, 2025 11:45 | November 26, 2025 15:45 | 4h | 314 | 789 |
| 6 | December 11, 2025 05:15 | December 11, 2025 07:00 | 1h 45m | 70 | 123 |
| 7 | February 24, 2025 22:00 | February 24, 2025 23:30 | 1h 30m | 66 | 99 |
| 8 | July 24, 2025 01:15 | July 24, 2025 03:30 | 2h 15m | 23 | 37 |
| 9 | October 29, 2025 22:15 | October 29, 2025 22:45 | 30m | 23 | 12 |
| 10 | July 29, 2025 14:30 | July 29, 2025 15:00 | 30m | 17 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 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 Dawes 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/dawes-county