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2023 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 68 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2957th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 10, 2023 06:45 | May 10, 2023 07:30 | 45m | 8 | 6 |
| 2 | June 20, 2023 15:15 | June 20, 2023 18:00 | 2h 45m | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | July 26, 2023 22:15 | July 27, 2023 01:15 | 3h | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | August 19, 2023 21:15 | August 20, 2023 00:15 | 3h | 5 | 15 |
| 5 | August 20, 2023 21:15 | August 20, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | March 20, 2023 19:30 | March 20, 2023 19:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | May 12, 2023 16:00 | May 12, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | June 29, 2023 10:45 | June 29, 2023 13:45 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 14:15 | July 18, 2023 18:45 | 4h 30m | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | August 2, 2023 22:15 | August 3, 2023 18:00 | 19h 45m | 1 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 0 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk County Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 1.55 | 48 min | 0.52 |
| Loup River Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler Public Power District - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of David City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Brainard - (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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,787 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, NE annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/nebraska/butler-county