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2019 Richardson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Richardson County, NE went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 1216th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Richardson County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 22, 2019 18:30 | January 23, 2019 10:00 | 15h 30m | 1,297 | 9,465 |
| 2 | December 5, 2019 15:30 | December 5, 2019 19:15 | 3h 45m | 1,186 | 3,891 |
| 3 | March 13, 2019 19:30 | March 14, 2019 00:45 | 5h 15m | 453 | 1,251 |
| 4 | January 19, 2019 08:15 | January 19, 2019 14:00 | 5h 45m | 451 | 1,760 |
| 5 | January 8, 2019 20:45 | January 8, 2019 22:15 | 1h 30m | 300 | 381 |
| 6 | July 11, 2019 03:15 | July 11, 2019 05:00 | 1h 45m | 228 | 286 |
| 7 | June 23, 2019 01:30 | June 23, 2019 07:15 | 5h 45m | 185 | 510 |
| 8 | June 23, 2019 11:00 | June 23, 2019 15:15 | 4h 15m | 158 | 602 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 20:45 | October 31, 2019 23:30 | 2h 45m | 141 | 103 |
| 10 | October 25, 2019 14:00 | October 25, 2019 14:45 | 45m | 97 | 73 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; 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, 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/richardson-county