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2019 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 17 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2909th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2019
The 1 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2019 05:45 | December 30, 2019 15:00 | 9h 15m | 2 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk County Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 1.55 | 48 min | 0.52 |
| Loup River Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler Public Power District - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of David City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Brainard - (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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,787 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, NE annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/nebraska/butler-county