Power outage history
Colfax County Nebraska
0.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
93% below the national median
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 Colfax's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Colfax, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2025 | No storm report | 317 | 5% | 5.9 d | – | 40k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 317 | 5% | 33 h | – | 10k |
| Sep 20, 2016 | No storm report | 163 | 2% | 17 h | – | 2.8k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 252 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 1.3k |
| Apr 28, 2023 | No storm report | 196 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 930 |
| Apr 11, 2018 | No storm report | 250 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 812 |
| Apr 14, 2025 | No storm report | 186 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 698 |
| Jan 22, 2018 | No storm report | 310 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 665 |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 250 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 625 |
| Jan 22, 2018 | No storm report | 250 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 612 |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Ice storm | 255 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 402 |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Ice storm | 280 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 340 |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 253 | 4% | 1.2 h | – | 316 |
| Jun 25, 2017 | No storm report | 240 | 4% | 1.2 h | – | 300 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | No storm report | 190 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 285 |
| Apr 11, 2025 | No storm report | 186 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 232 |
| Oct 16, 2024 | No storm report | 255 | 4% | 48 min | – | 191 |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Flooding | 312 | 5% | 30 min | – | 141 |
| Aug 17, 2023 | No storm report | 256 | 4% | 30 min | – | 128 |
| Nov 11, 2020 | No storm report | 88 | 1% | 30 min | – | 41 |
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 Colfax from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 78%
- Winter storm 20%
- Ice storm 1.3%
- Thunderstorms 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Colfax
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 558 | 98 | 1.57 | 13.3 | 369k |
| Burt County Public Power Dist | NE | – | – | – | 13.1 | 62k |
| Cuming County Public Pwr Dist | NE | – | – | – | 10.0 | 52k |
| City of Schuyler | NE | – | – | – | 9.3 | 31k |
| Loup River Public Power Dist | Political Subdivision | 81 | 18 | 0.80 | 10.8 | 16k |
| Cornhusker Public Power Dist | Political Subdivision | 2,701 | 2,701 | – | 11.0 | 7.4k |
| Stanton County Public Pwr Dist | Political Subdivision | 123 | 85 | 0.91 | 10.9 | 2.1k |
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
- Dodge 2.4 h
- Colfax (this county) 0.5 h
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 6,814 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 →