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2020 McPherson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McPherson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 104 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2819th 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 McPherson County, 2020
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 6, 2020 13:00 | December 6, 2020 14:15 | 1h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | December 6, 2020 22:15 | December 7, 2020 22:15 | 1d | 1 | 24 |
| 3 | December 8, 2020 14:15 | December 11, 2020 18:30 | 3d 4h | 1 | 76 |
| 4 | December 21, 2020 15:45 | December 21, 2020 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
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 McPherson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dawson 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 ÷ 213 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. McPherson County has data for 2020.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county