Power outages in Nebraska
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
10
customers reported out statewide · 5 counties reporting
Updated 9:54 AM CDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Nebraska counties (93)
- Adams
- Antelope
- Arthur
- Banner
- Blaine
- Boone
- Box Butte
- Boyd
- Brown
- Buffalo
- Burt
- Butler
- Cass
- Cedar
- Chase
- Cherry
- Cheyenne
- Clay
- Colfax
- Cuming
- Custer
- Dakota
- Dawes
- Dawson
- Deuel
- Dixon
- Dodge
- Douglas
- Dundy
- Fillmore
- Franklin
- Frontier
- Furnas
- Gage
- Garden
- Garfield
- Gosper
- Grant
- Greeley
- Hall
- Hamilton
- Harlan
- Hayes
- Hitchcock
- Holt
- Hooker
- Howard
- Jefferson
- Johnson
- Kearney
- Keith
- Keya Paha
- Kimball
- Knox
- Lancaster
- Lincoln
- Logan
- Loup
- Madison
- McPherson
- Merrick
- Morrill
- Nance
- Nemaha
- Nuckolls
- Otoe
- Pawnee
- Perkins
- Phelps
- Pierce
- Platte
- Polk
- Red Willow
- Richardson
- Rock
- Saline
- Sarpy
- Saunders
- Scotts Bluff
- Seward
- Sheridan
- Sherman
- Sioux
- Stanton
- Thayer
- Thomas
- Thurston
- Valley
- Washington
- Wayne
- Webster
- Wheeler
- York
Utility coverage in Nebraska
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Lincoln Electric System (NE) · Nebraska Public Power District · High West Energy (WY/NE/CO) · South Dakota Rural Electric Association (statewide map)
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Nebraska.
Historical outage patterns in Nebraska
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 3,367 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Nebraska between 2014 and 2025 for the 52 counties the federal record covers — 27 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (36% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2021.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~157,876 customers out in Douglas County in July 2024, restored after about 5.9 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: March 2025 (17 counties), December 2021 (9 counties) and June 2020 (7 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Douglas County (~3.8 hr typical), Saunders County (~2.8 hr typical) and Cass County (~2.5 hr typical) — against ~2.5 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Nebraska?
Electric utilities we track in Nebraska include Omaha Public Power District, Lincoln Electric System, Nebraska Public Power District, High West Energy and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.