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2020 Lancaster County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lancaster County, NE went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2885th 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 Lancaster 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 4, 2020 03:45 | June 4, 2020 18:00 | 14h 15m | 1,329 | 3,305 |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 12:30 | June 19, 2020 19:00 | 1d 6h | 1,041 | 1,076 |
| 3 | July 9, 2020 06:15 | July 12, 2020 11:45 | 3d 5h | 1,036 | 6,123 |
| 4 | September 8, 2020 18:15 | September 9, 2020 14:45 | 20h 30m | 875 | 9,186 |
| 5 | November 18, 2020 15:15 | November 20, 2020 19:45 | 2d 4h | 872 | 1,689 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 00:45 | January 13, 2020 16:15 | 2d 15h | 750 | 4,753 |
| 7 | May 9, 2020 23:30 | May 10, 2020 02:00 | 2h 30m | 682 | 516 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 02:45 | October 13, 2020 21:45 | 1d 19h | 661 | 2,541 |
| 9 | April 25, 2020 23:15 | April 27, 2020 12:30 | 1d 13h | 387 | 479 |
| 10 | June 5, 2020 04:45 | June 5, 2020 13:30 | 8h 45m | 374 | 1,167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 21 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lancaster 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 0.68 | 79 min | 0.53 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 1.87 | 3.7 hrs | 1.87 |
| Lincoln Electric System | 2020 | 58 min | 0.60 | 22 min | 0.36 |
| City of Nebraska City | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hickman - (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 ÷ 165,006 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. Lancaster County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county