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2020 Brown County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brown County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 501 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2931st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brown County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 22, 2020 15:30 | December 22, 2020 20:15 | 4h 45m | 74 | 24 |
| 2 | May 13, 2020 13:00 | May 13, 2020 15:15 | 2h 15m | 64 | 144 |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 03:15 | July 11, 2020 07:15 | 4h | 57 | 28 |
| 4 | September 24, 2020 13:45 | September 24, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 57 | 200 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 12:30 | September 15, 2020 13:00 | 30m | 14 | 7 |
| 6 | September 15, 2020 18:15 | September 15, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 14 | 7 |
| 7 | September 22, 2020 18:15 | September 22, 2020 19:15 | 1h | 11 | 11 |
| 8 | September 16, 2020 18:15 | September 16, 2020 21:45 | 3h 30m | 9 | 32 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 15:00 | May 18, 2020 16:45 | 1h 45m | 8 | 14 |
| 10 | June 20, 2020 13:00 | June 20, 2020 15:45 | 2h 45m | 5 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Brown County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 80 min | 0.78 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,604 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown County, NE annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/nebraska/brown-county