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2020 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 85 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2986th 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 Butler 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 | November 11, 2020 16:30 | November 11, 2020 20:00 | 3h 30m | 8 | 14 |
| 2 | March 12, 2020 16:45 | March 12, 2020 17:30 | 45m | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | October 12, 2020 02:15 | October 12, 2020 19:00 | 16h 45m | 3 | 40 |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 08:00 | November 10, 2020 12:45 | 4h 45m | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | April 12, 2020 17:15 | April 12, 2020 20:30 | 3h 15m | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | November 10, 2020 16:30 | November 10, 2020 18:45 | 2h 15m | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | March 27, 2020 14:30 | March 27, 2020 15:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | August 18, 2020 19:00 | August 18, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | October 17, 2020 17:00 | October 17, 2020 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | November 9, 2020 15:15 | November 9, 2020 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1 | 3 |
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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 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/butler-county