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2021 Lincoln County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,569 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2931st 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 Lincoln 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 | February 16, 2021 15:00 | February 16, 2021 23:45 | 8h 45m | 960 | 1,209 |
| 2 | February 15, 2021 08:00 | February 15, 2021 11:00 | 3h | 60 | 180 |
| 3 | July 10, 2021 02:00 | July 10, 2021 04:15 | 2h 15m | 29 | 50 |
| 4 | April 1, 2021 16:30 | April 1, 2021 17:30 | 1h | 19 | 10 |
| 5 | July 10, 2021 08:45 | July 10, 2021 11:45 | 3h | 15 | 7 |
| 6 | August 5, 2021 09:00 | August 5, 2021 10:45 | 1h 45m | 9 | 7 |
| 7 | May 7, 2021 16:45 | May 7, 2021 18:15 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 20:15 | September 29, 2021 20:45 | 30m | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | June 17, 2021 18:00 | June 17, 2021 19:45 | 1h 45m | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | June 30, 2021 14:30 | June 30, 2021 17:15 | 2h 45m | 6 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Midwest Electric Member Corp - (NE) | 2021 | 1.9 hrs | 0.77 | 1.9 hrs | 0.75 |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dawson Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| McCook Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of North Platte | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,525 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2018, 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county