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2021 Richardson County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richardson County, NE went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 606th 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 Richardson 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 | December 15, 2021 20:30 | December 19, 2021 01:00 | 3d 4h | 1,696 | 60K |
| 2 | July 15, 2021 12:45 | July 16, 2021 01:00 | 12h 15m | 1,199 | 5,397 |
| 3 | March 7, 2021 22:45 | March 8, 2021 02:45 | 4h | 403 | 1,213 |
| 4 | December 15, 2021 12:45 | December 15, 2021 13:15 | 30m | 299 | 75 |
| 5 | July 10, 2021 05:30 | July 11, 2021 05:45 | 1d | 243 | 2,983 |
| 6 | March 23, 2021 17:15 | March 23, 2021 20:30 | 3h 15m | 142 | 323 |
| 7 | January 15, 2021 15:00 | January 15, 2021 15:15 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 8 | February 22, 2021 16:00 | February 22, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 9 | March 10, 2021 16:00 | March 10, 2021 23:45 | 7h 45m | 68 | 143 |
| 10 | July 29, 2021 00:30 | July 29, 2021 03:45 | 3h 15m | 49 | 150 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Richardson 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2021 | 15.4 hrs | 1.40 | 68 min | 0.52 |
| Auburn Board of Public Works | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Falls City - (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 ÷ 5,162 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. Richardson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richardson 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/richardson-county