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Who serves Rock County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Nebraska Public Power District ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. KBR Rural Public Power District also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Rock County, NE
Last significant outage: Sep 7, 2026 — peaked at 567 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 12, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Rock County, NE
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
7 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Nebraska norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~568 customers out in June 2016, restored after about 1.5 hr.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Rock County include Bassett and Newport. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Rock County, NE?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rock include KBR Rural Public Power District and Nebraska Public Power District — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
