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2025 Butler County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Butler County, NE went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,540 customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2918th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 19, 2025 10:45 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 1d 9h | 14 | 424 |
| 2 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | March 25, 2025 21:30 | 4d 22h | 14 | 1,017 |
| 3 | August 9, 2025 10:15 | August 10, 2025 00:00 | 13h 45m | 6 | 50 |
| 4 | September 14, 2025 20:15 | September 15, 2025 03:00 | 6h 45m | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | June 1, 2025 22:45 | June 1, 2025 23:15 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | October 22, 2025 09:45 | October 22, 2025 11:30 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | November 10, 2025 13:45 | November 10, 2025 15:15 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | May 17, 2025 04:30 | May 17, 2025 07:00 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | June 17, 2025 17:15 | June 17, 2025 19:00 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | July 10, 2025 15:45 | July 10, 2025 16:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/nebraska/butler-county