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2024 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 39 customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2974th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 2, 2024 19:15 | August 2, 2024 19:45 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | July 31, 2024 18:15 | July 31, 2024 18:30 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | March 18, 2024 13:15 | March 18, 2024 13:45 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | April 12, 2024 14:30 | April 12, 2024 20:30 | 6h | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | October 2, 2024 09:45 | October 2, 2024 11:15 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | October 14, 2024 12:00 | October 14, 2024 14:00 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | January 24, 2024 17:15 | January 24, 2024 17:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | August 8, 2024 15:15 | August 8, 2024 16:00 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | August 16, 2024 15:00 | August 16, 2024 19:15 | 4h 15m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | September 19, 2024 04:30 | September 19, 2024 15:00 | 10h 30m | 1 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 2024, 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/nebraska/butler-county