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2020 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,465 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2860th 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 Cherry 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 | June 7, 2020 04:30 | June 7, 2020 07:15 | 2h 45m | 145 | 399 |
| 2 | June 11, 2020 13:30 | June 11, 2020 16:00 | 2h 30m | 145 | 363 |
| 3 | July 8, 2020 02:45 | July 8, 2020 03:30 | 45m | 144 | 108 |
| 4 | July 8, 2020 05:15 | July 8, 2020 06:00 | 45m | 121 | 91 |
| 5 | July 11, 2020 01:45 | July 11, 2020 08:45 | 7h | 103 | 333 |
| 6 | December 22, 2020 18:15 | December 22, 2020 19:15 | 1h | 73 | 19 |
| 7 | December 23, 2020 21:30 | December 24, 2020 02:00 | 4h 30m | 30 | 135 |
| 8 | June 19, 2020 03:45 | June 19, 2020 04:15 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | December 3, 2020 16:15 | December 3, 2020 18:15 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | March 6, 2020 16:15 | March 6, 2020 17:00 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Cherry 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 |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 2.75 | 7.1 hrs | 2.66 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| LaCreek Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherry-Todd Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valentine - (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 ÷ 4,043 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. Cherry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherry 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/cherry-county