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2025 Dawson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dawson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 815 customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2950th 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 Dawson 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 | June 30, 2025 08:00 | June 30, 2025 11:00 | 3h | 61 | 20 |
| 2 | December 4, 2025 14:00 | December 4, 2025 18:45 | 4h 45m | 35 | 166 |
| 3 | August 10, 2025 20:00 | August 10, 2025 21:30 | 1h 30m | 34 | 36 |
| 4 | March 16, 2025 13:45 | March 16, 2025 14:30 | 45m | 26 | 7 |
| 5 | October 8, 2025 21:00 | October 8, 2025 22:30 | 1h 30m | 22 | 33 |
| 6 | October 12, 2025 16:45 | October 12, 2025 17:00 | 15m | 21 | 5 |
| 7 | March 19, 2025 04:00 | March 19, 2025 05:15 | 1h 15m | 19 | 6 |
| 8 | January 12, 2025 13:45 | January 12, 2025 17:45 | 4h | 17 | 68 |
| 9 | May 2, 2025 23:00 | May 3, 2025 00:15 | 1h 15m | 15 | 9 |
| 10 | September 10, 2025 07:45 | September 10, 2025 19:45 | 12h | 13 | 66 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 0 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 Dawson 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/dawson-county