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2018 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 323 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2673rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cherry County, 2018
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 5, 2018 14:15 | March 5, 2018 16:45 | 2h 30m | 112 | 280 |
| 2 | May 4, 2018 18:30 | May 4, 2018 20:15 | 1h 45m | 11 | 13 |
| 3 | February 15, 2018 19:30 | February 15, 2018 20:15 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
| 4 | February 16, 2018 16:30 | February 16, 2018 18:00 | 1h 30m | 6 | 9 |
| 5 | May 4, 2018 15:15 | May 4, 2018 17:15 | 2h | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | January 30, 2018 19:15 | January 30, 2018 20:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | April 3, 2018 18:00 | April 3, 2018 19:45 | 1h 45m | 3 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 1 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 Cherry County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.74 | 49 min | 0.60 |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 2.75 | 7.1 hrs | 2.66 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| LaCreek Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherry-Todd Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valentine - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,043 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. Cherry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherry County, NE annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/nebraska/cherry-county