County annual report · FIPS 31031
2025 Cherry County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cherry County, NE went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 1517th 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 Cherry 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 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | January 20, 2025 14:30 | 19d 14h | 430 | 1,350 |
| 2 | May 19, 2025 13:30 | May 20, 2025 14:15 | 1d | 212 | 5,141 |
| 3 | June 15, 2025 13:30 | June 16, 2025 02:30 | 13h | 179 | 414 |
| 4 | September 25, 2025 01:15 | November 7, 2025 15:15 | 43d 14h | 178 | 3,103 |
| 5 | May 14, 2025 23:15 | May 15, 2025 07:45 | 8h 30m | 114 | 434 |
| 6 | May 29, 2025 03:30 | May 29, 2025 13:15 | 9h 45m | 113 | 318 |
| 7 | September 5, 2025 03:45 | September 5, 2025 05:45 | 2h | 112 | 224 |
| 8 | July 6, 2025 19:15 | July 8, 2025 21:30 | 2d 2h | 94 | 2,828 |
| 9 | June 2, 2025 13:30 | June 10, 2025 13:15 | 7d 23h | 73 | 431 |
| 10 | February 9, 2025 23:45 | February 11, 2025 14:30 | 1d 14h | 45 | 221 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/cherry-county