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2021 Red Willow County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Red Willow County, NE went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2597th 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 Red Willow 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 | July 10, 2021 06:45 | July 11, 2021 02:00 | 19h 15m | 2,067 | 6,319 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 21:15 | December 15, 2021 23:30 | 2h 15m | 1,255 | 1,578 |
| 3 | November 1, 2021 20:45 | November 1, 2021 23:15 | 2h 30m | 1,248 | 936 |
| 4 | January 17, 2021 12:30 | January 17, 2021 15:30 | 3h | 231 | 530 |
| 5 | August 3, 2021 12:45 | August 3, 2021 16:15 | 3h 30m | 60 | 210 |
| 6 | June 22, 2021 19:30 | June 22, 2021 20:00 | 30m | 50 | 25 |
| 7 | February 13, 2021 21:15 | February 13, 2021 23:15 | 2h | 49 | 25 |
| 8 | January 2, 2021 15:45 | January 2, 2021 16:45 | 1h | 41 | 41 |
| 9 | November 4, 2021 13:45 | November 4, 2021 16:30 | 2h 45m | 40 | 110 |
| 10 | August 30, 2021 15:15 | August 30, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 36 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Red Willow 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 |
| Southwest Public Power Dist | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 63 min | 0.64 |
| McCook Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Twin Valleys Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Indianola - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Bartley - (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 ÷ 8,983 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. Red Willow County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Red Willow 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/red-willow-county