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2020 Kearney County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kearney County, NE went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 512 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2912th of 3,010 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kearney 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 20, 2020 22:45 | November 20, 2020 23:00 | 15m | 324 | 81 |
| 2 | November 21, 2020 01:15 | November 21, 2020 03:15 | 2h | 270 | 144 |
| 3 | December 20, 2020 07:00 | December 20, 2020 08:00 | 1h | 137 | 70 |
| 4 | December 21, 2020 21:30 | December 21, 2020 22:15 | 45m | 107 | 80 |
| 5 | December 18, 2020 02:30 | December 18, 2020 03:15 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
| 6 | November 30, 2020 11:15 | November 30, 2020 13:45 | 2h 30m | 8 | 19 |
| 7 | November 23, 2020 19:00 | November 23, 2020 20:15 | 1h 15m | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | November 25, 2020 14:45 | November 25, 2020 20:15 | 5h 30m | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | December 9, 2020 15:45 | December 9, 2020 16:15 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | December 14, 2020 15:45 | December 14, 2020 16:00 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Kearney 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Minden - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Wilcox - (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 ÷ 3,115 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. Kearney County has data for 2020.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kearney County, NE annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 14, 2026 13:35 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/nebraska/kearney-county