Blaine County Nebraska

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Dec 22, 2020 20% of customers out · 90% back in 12 min

Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 4.8 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 0hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 0hours Dec 22, 2020, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year –

Electricity customers 357 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Blaine's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Blaine, hours without power per customer

BlaineUS median countyNebraska average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Dec 22, 2020	No storm report	73	20%	12 min	12 min	18

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Blaine from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

No storm on record 100%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Blaine

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Nebraska territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Custer Public Power District	Political Subdivision	2	2	0.72	13.1	4.7k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Cherry 3.7 h
Blaine (this county) – h

Across Nebraska

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Nebraska counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 357 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →