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2021 Brown County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Brown County, NE went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 693 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2891st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brown County, 2021
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 24, 2021 02:45 | June 24, 2021 04:00 | 1h 15m | 278 | 348 |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 13:30 | February 16, 2021 14:15 | 45m | 267 | 134 |
| 3 | June 9, 2021 14:15 | June 9, 2021 18:00 | 3h 45m | 16 | 50 |
| 4 | June 2, 2021 16:00 | June 2, 2021 16:45 | 45m | 15 | 11 |
| 5 | June 23, 2021 20:45 | June 23, 2021 21:45 | 1h | 13 | 13 |
| 6 | December 29, 2021 15:15 | December 29, 2021 18:45 | 3h 30m | 8 | 28 |
| 7 | April 19, 2021 19:15 | April 19, 2021 20:00 | 45m | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | July 29, 2021 04:00 | July 29, 2021 05:00 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
| 9 | January 20, 2021 15:15 | January 20, 2021 20:15 | 5h | 4 | 20 |
| 10 | April 6, 2021 21:30 | April 6, 2021 22:45 | 1h 15m | 4 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Brown County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.14 | 71 min | 0.66 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,604 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown County, NE annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/nebraska/brown-county