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2024 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2199th 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 Cherry 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 | October 24, 2024 00:30 | October 24, 2024 01:15 | 45m | 1,155 | 290 |
| 2 | October 3, 2024 00:45 | October 3, 2024 01:00 | 15m | 1,152 | 288 |
| 3 | April 10, 2024 18:45 | April 26, 2024 13:45 | 15d 19h | 955 | 3,769 |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 16:15 | June 17, 2024 20:30 | 4h 15m | 219 | 59 |
| 5 | March 8, 2024 22:45 | March 9, 2024 02:00 | 3h 15m | 181 | 499 |
| 6 | July 28, 2024 00:30 | July 28, 2024 04:45 | 4h 15m | 179 | 725 |
| 7 | June 21, 2024 15:45 | June 22, 2024 02:15 | 10h 30m | 114 | 1,197 |
| 8 | May 20, 2024 13:00 | May 21, 2024 20:15 | 1d 7h | 93 | 97 |
| 9 | June 26, 2024 01:30 | June 26, 2024 07:15 | 5h 45m | 33 | 168 |
| 10 | December 19, 2024 10:15 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 12d 13h | 24 | 340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2024 | 74 min | 0.74 | 74 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/cherry-county