Power Outages in Richardson County, NE
No live outage feed is available for Richardson County, NE yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.6 hours.
Richardson County, NE is served by local tracked utilities.
Richardson County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Richardson County has been under 1 National Weather Service alert recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 20, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Richardson County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Richardson County went about 3.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 1,696 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 1,696 customers out) · decade average 3.0 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 155 | 999 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 165 | 1,153 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 128 | 515 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 132 | 1,215 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 195 | 1,297 | 4.4 |
| 2020 | 168 | 537 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 143 | 1,696 | 13.9 |
| 2022 | 155 | 951 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 142 | 665 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 178 | 1,414 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 171 | 1,431 | 3.6 |
Relatively Moderate ice storms exposure · 3.0 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Richardson County: FAQ
- How often does Richardson County, NE lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Richardson County, NE logged 171 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Richardson County, NE?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 1,696 customers without power, beginning December 15, 2021 and lasting about 3d 4h.
- Is there a power outage in Richardson County, NE right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Richardson County, NE. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Richardson County.
68337, 68355, 68376, 68431, 68433, 68437, 68442, 68457
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/31147 and /api/v1/counties/31147/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Nebraska customers).