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2021 Scotts Bluff County, NE Power Outage Report

In 2021, customers in Scotts Bluff County, NE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2744th of 2,974 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.8
21,716 customers
Customer-hours out
16K
Peak customers out
5,733
Outages ≥1,000 out
2
0 of 10,000+ · 282 total
Longest outage
7d 8h
began October 23, 2021
Rank in state
33rd/54
2744th of 2,974 US

Compared with NE, the US and 2020

Scotts Bluff County, NE average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2021Scotts Bluff County 0.8 hours, Nebraska average 8.3 hours, US average 8.9 hours, Scotts Bluff County, 2020 0.5 hoursScotts Bluff CountyScotts Bluff County0.8hNebraska averageNebraska average8.3hUS averageUS average8.9hScotts Bluff County, 2020Scotts Bluff County,…0.5h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2021; last bar is this county in 2020.

Month by month

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Scotts Bluff County, NE customer-hours without power by month, 2021Jan 3,101, Feb 3,353, Mar 1,673, Apr 291, May 326, Jun 591, Jul 1,086, Aug 51, Sep 279, Oct 4,339, Nov 918, Dec 44702k4k6k3,101Jan3,353Feb1,673Mar291Apr326May591Jun1,086Jul51Aug279Sep4,339Oct918Nov447Dec
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Customer-hours; October was the worst month.

Scotts Bluff County year over year

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Scotts Bluff County, NE: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 0.9h; 2016: 0.4h; 2017: 0.5h; 2018: 0.4h, coverage 45%; 2019: 0.1h, coverage 46%; 2020: 0.5h, coverage 48%; 2021: 0.8h, coverage 48%; 2022: 1.1h, coverage 48%; 2023: 0.5h; 2024: 1.3h; 2025: 0.5h00.511.50%50%100%0.9h20150.4h20160.5h20170.4h20180.1h20190.5h20200.8h20211.1h20220.5h20231.3h20240.5h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Scotts Bluff County, 2021

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1October 19, 2021 23:00October 20, 2021 11:0012h5,7331,459
2February 16, 2021 14:15February 16, 2021 16:001h 45m3,1653,125
3January 14, 2021 03:15January 14, 2021 08:305h 15m9232,738
4October 31, 2021 13:15November 4, 2021 22:304d 9h922773
5October 13, 2021 06:15October 13, 2021 22:1516h7642,368
6July 1, 2021 12:00July 1, 2021 12:1515m557139
7July 28, 2021 13:00July 28, 2021 15:002h554143
8March 14, 2021 16:15March 14, 2021 23:457h 30m4211,449
9January 17, 2021 06:30January 17, 2021 09:303h206254
10July 24, 2021 18:15July 24, 2021 21:153h184405

Outage episodes by size in 2021: 14 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 Scotts Bluff County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Nebraska Public Power District20214.0 hrs1.1471 min0.66
Wyrulec Company20183.0 hrs1.0371 min0.72
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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 ÷ 21,716 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. Scotts Bluff County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scotts Bluff 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/scotts-bluff-county

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