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2020 Washington County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, NE went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 870th 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 Washington 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 | August 10, 2020 13:45 | August 13, 2020 00:00 | 2d 10h | 9,091 | 27K |
| 2 | March 18, 2020 10:15 | March 18, 2020 18:15 | 8h | 4,536 | 18K |
| 3 | September 22, 2020 22:45 | September 23, 2020 04:15 | 5h 30m | 4,169 | 1,784 |
| 4 | January 22, 2020 05:30 | January 22, 2020 11:15 | 5h 45m | 2,883 | 3,759 |
| 5 | August 26, 2020 23:00 | August 27, 2020 09:00 | 10h | 994 | 2,770 |
| 6 | September 4, 2020 14:15 | September 4, 2020 18:30 | 4h 15m | 982 | 742 |
| 7 | April 3, 2020 02:00 | April 3, 2020 19:45 | 17h 45m | 974 | 3,781 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 01:15 | December 24, 2020 06:15 | 5h | 766 | 3,221 |
| 9 | September 8, 2020 15:15 | September 8, 2020 18:45 | 3h 30m | 751 | 943 |
| 10 | November 10, 2020 06:00 | November 12, 2020 00:00 | 1d 18h | 658 | 5,458 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 0.68 | 79 min | 0.53 |
| Burt County Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,327 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county