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2023 Pierce County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pierce County, NE went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 587 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2894th 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 Pierce 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 | July 4, 2023 22:15 | July 4, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 277 | 70 |
| 2 | January 16, 2023 19:15 | January 17, 2023 00:00 | 4h 45m | 230 | 188 |
| 3 | January 29, 2023 08:00 | January 29, 2023 08:45 | 45m | 34 | 26 |
| 4 | September 5, 2023 15:15 | September 5, 2023 16:15 | 1h | 25 | 18 |
| 5 | November 19, 2023 18:45 | November 19, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 21 | 32 |
| 6 | November 12, 2023 15:15 | November 12, 2023 16:15 | 1h | 17 | 17 |
| 7 | July 12, 2023 10:00 | July 12, 2023 21:15 | 11h 15m | 16 | 57 |
| 8 | January 20, 2023 20:00 | January 20, 2023 20:30 | 30m | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | May 4, 2023 04:30 | May 4, 2023 06:30 | 2h | 9 | 16 |
| 10 | February 18, 2023 12:30 | February 18, 2023 14:00 | 1h 30m | 7 | 7 |
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 Pierce 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 |
| Elkhorn Rural Public Pwr Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northeast Power | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cedar-Knox Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Public Pwr Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Randolph - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pierce - (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 ÷ 3,197 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. Pierce County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pierce 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/pierce-county