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2021 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,639 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2506th 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 Cherry 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 | May 3, 2021 19:00 | May 3, 2021 23:15 | 4h 15m | 695 | 2,309 |
| 2 | July 13, 2021 14:45 | July 13, 2021 18:00 | 3h 15m | 379 | 1,232 |
| 3 | October 13, 2021 09:15 | October 13, 2021 10:30 | 1h 15m | 340 | 425 |
| 4 | June 14, 2021 04:30 | June 14, 2021 16:15 | 11h 45m | 180 | 1,045 |
| 5 | March 14, 2021 18:45 | March 15, 2021 08:00 | 13h 15m | 179 | 422 |
| 6 | April 9, 2021 07:15 | April 9, 2021 07:45 | 30m | 137 | 69 |
| 7 | February 26, 2021 17:30 | February 26, 2021 19:00 | 1h 30m | 5 | 6 |
| 8 | October 14, 2021 05:00 | October 14, 2021 05:30 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | September 30, 2021 15:15 | September 30, 2021 18:30 | 3h 15m | 4 | 13 |
| 10 | January 6, 2021 17:15 | January 6, 2021 19:15 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 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 Cherry 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 |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 2.75 | 7.1 hrs | 2.66 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| LaCreek Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherry-Todd Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valentine - (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 ÷ 4,043 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. Cherry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherry 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/cherry-county