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2021 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 125 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2949th 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 Butler 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 | April 11, 2021 16:00 | April 11, 2021 17:15 | 1h 15m | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | September 15, 2021 18:30 | September 15, 2021 19:45 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | September 17, 2021 13:15 | September 17, 2021 17:15 | 4h | 5 | 20 |
| 4 | April 29, 2021 18:00 | April 29, 2021 19:00 | 1h | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | July 10, 2021 05:15 | July 10, 2021 13:45 | 8h 30m | 3 | 26 |
| 6 | July 29, 2021 17:30 | July 29, 2021 18:00 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | November 19, 2021 14:30 | November 19, 2021 14:45 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | January 28, 2021 19:00 | January 28, 2021 20:30 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | October 4, 2021 00:00 | October 4, 2021 01:00 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | June 23, 2021 01:30 | June 23, 2021 03:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk County Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 1.55 | 48 min | 0.52 |
| Loup River Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler Public Power District - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of David City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Brainard - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,787 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county