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2021 Washington County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, NE went without power for an average of 23.0 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 371st 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 Washington 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 04:45 | July 17, 2021 22:30 | 7d 17h | 12,598 | 78K |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 21:30 | December 17, 2021 07:15 | 1d 9h | 6,695 | 17K |
| 3 | December 10, 2021 21:15 | December 11, 2021 17:15 | 20h | 6,496 | 34K |
| 4 | August 31, 2021 06:00 | August 31, 2021 19:15 | 13h 15m | 5,115 | 14K |
| 5 | March 10, 2021 18:15 | March 11, 2021 08:30 | 14h 15m | 4,203 | 6,350 |
| 6 | March 14, 2021 03:30 | March 15, 2021 23:30 | 1d 20h | 4,199 | 2,773 |
| 7 | July 3, 2021 13:00 | July 4, 2021 02:00 | 13h | 2,984 | 11K |
| 8 | July 24, 2021 22:45 | July 25, 2021 12:30 | 13h 45m | 2,970 | 7,437 |
| 9 | September 14, 2021 08:00 | September 14, 2021 22:00 | 14h | 1,482 | 2,702 |
| 10 | August 23, 2021 06:45 | August 23, 2021 21:15 | 14h 30m | 1,477 | 1,566 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | 2021 | 15.4 hrs | 1.40 | 68 min | 0.52 |
| Burt County Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,327 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county