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2020 Richardson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richardson County, NE went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 4,724 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2693rd 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 Richardson 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 | December 19, 2020 18:15 | December 19, 2020 19:00 | 45m | 537 | 135 |
| 2 | March 16, 2020 09:30 | March 16, 2020 14:15 | 4h 45m | 229 | 852 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 05:15 | June 4, 2020 16:00 | 10h 45m | 148 | 527 |
| 4 | October 12, 2020 12:30 | October 12, 2020 20:15 | 7h 45m | 144 | 546 |
| 5 | April 16, 2020 23:00 | April 17, 2020 02:00 | 3h | 143 | 104 |
| 6 | March 4, 2020 18:15 | March 4, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 70 | 158 |
| 7 | June 17, 2020 07:30 | June 17, 2020 09:00 | 1h 30m | 70 | 105 |
| 8 | June 15, 2020 14:30 | June 15, 2020 18:45 | 4h 15m | 61 | 128 |
| 9 | May 19, 2020 22:15 | May 20, 2020 07:30 | 9h 15m | 53 | 473 |
| 10 | June 28, 2020 00:45 | June 28, 2020 04:00 | 3h 15m | 45 | 141 |
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 Richardson 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 |
| Auburn Board of Public Works | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Falls City - (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 ÷ 5,162 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. Richardson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richardson 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/richardson-county