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2018 Richardson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richardson County, NE went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 7,941 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2072nd 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 Richardson County, 2018
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 17, 2018 12:00 | June 17, 2018 15:45 | 3h 45m | 1,215 | 3,270 |
| 2 | January 21, 2018 13:15 | January 21, 2018 14:00 | 45m | 514 | 386 |
| 3 | June 17, 2018 16:45 | June 17, 2018 17:15 | 30m | 456 | 228 |
| 4 | September 20, 2018 22:00 | September 21, 2018 12:15 | 14h 15m | 372 | 758 |
| 5 | October 28, 2018 19:45 | October 28, 2018 23:15 | 3h 30m | 159 | 417 |
| 6 | January 1, 2018 06:30 | January 1, 2018 08:45 | 2h 15m | 149 | 122 |
| 7 | May 3, 2018 00:30 | May 3, 2018 10:30 | 10h | 125 | 966 |
| 8 | April 30, 2018 21:15 | May 1, 2018 00:30 | 3h 15m | 60 | 36 |
| 9 | July 22, 2018 14:15 | July 22, 2018 16:00 | 1h 45m | 60 | 103 |
| 10 | August 28, 2018 19:15 | August 29, 2018 00:15 | 5h | 43 | 133 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 Richardson 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| Auburn Board of Public Works | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Falls City - (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 ÷ 5,162 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. Richardson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richardson 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/richardson-county