Power Out Map
– 0% of Lincoln out 0 customers out in Nebraska

Power outage history

Lincoln County Nebraska

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

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 4% of customers out · lasted 1.2 hours
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% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 1hours Feb 16, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 100% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 23,525 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 Lincoln'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

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyNebraska average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 NE 4.8

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
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 960 4% 1.2 h – 1.2k

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Winter storm 100%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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
Nebraska Public Power District Political Subdivision 195 77 0.90 10.9 74k
McCook Public Power District NE – – – 13.8 40k
Dawson Power District Political Subdivision 157 106 – 11.3 16k
City of North Platte Municipal – – – 11.7 12k
Custer Public Power District Political Subdivision 2 2 0.72 13.1 4.7k
Midwest Electric Member Corp Cooperative 65 65 0.39 12.0 2.4k

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

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 23,525 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 →