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2023 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 467 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2916th 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 Cherry 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 | April 13, 2023 06:15 | April 13, 2023 06:45 | 30m | 334 | 167 |
| 2 | April 13, 2023 09:00 | April 13, 2023 09:30 | 30m | 334 | 167 |
| 3 | July 28, 2023 19:00 | July 28, 2023 19:15 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 4 | August 3, 2023 21:00 | August 3, 2023 21:30 | 30m | 10 | 5 |
| 5 | March 21, 2023 16:45 | March 21, 2023 17:45 | 1h | 6 | 5 |
| 6 | June 9, 2023 15:15 | June 9, 2023 16:30 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | December 12, 2023 02:30 | December 12, 2023 04:45 | 2h 15m | 6 | 5 |
| 8 | January 27, 2023 13:45 | January 27, 2023 14:15 | 30m | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | August 16, 2023 16:30 | August 16, 2023 16:45 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | September 26, 2023 19:30 | September 26, 2023 23:00 | 3h 30m | 4 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Cherry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2023 | 70 min | 0.60 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| Custer Public Power District | 2023 | 89 min | 0.80 | 82 min | 0.58 |
| Northwest Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 2.75 | 7.1 hrs | 2.66 |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| KBR Rural Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| LaCreek Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherry-Todd Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Valentine - (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 ÷ 4,043 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. Cherry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherry 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/cherry-county