County annual report · FIPS 31135
2021 Perkins County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Perkins County, NE went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 496 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2860th 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 Perkins County, 2021
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2021 04:15 | July 27, 2021 07:15 | 3h | 115 | 345 |
| 2 | June 11, 2021 00:15 | June 11, 2021 02:15 | 2h | 109 | 88 |
| 3 | May 24, 2021 15:30 | May 24, 2021 17:30 | 2h | 30 | 43 |
| 4 | June 29, 2021 12:45 | June 29, 2021 16:15 | 3h 30m | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | December 15, 2021 20:15 | December 15, 2021 22:30 | 2h 15m | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | March 15, 2021 15:00 | March 15, 2021 16:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | April 14, 2021 20:15 | April 14, 2021 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | April 15, 2021 18:15 | April 15, 2021 19:15 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | November 3, 2021 13:30 | November 3, 2021 19:30 | 6h | 1 | 6 |
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 Perkins 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 |
| Highline Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Grant - (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 ÷ 1,727 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. Perkins County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Perkins 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/perkins-county