Douglas County, Nebraska Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Douglas County, Nebraska had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 1.73 times the Nebraska rate. It ranks 3 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

152 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 10, 2021, reached 116,210 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 152.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	235,714	94	1
2016	521,088	154	2
2017	924,335	152	2
2018	910,237	171	4
2019	341,376	145	0
2020	678,579	153	1
2021	5,064,252	163	3
2022	231,462	154	0
2023	413,259	122	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 10, 2021	152.5	116,210	3,815,774
Jun 17, 2017	86.8	35,038	593,884
Jul 10, 2021	4.5	138,192	588,542
Oct 14, 2018	38.2	46,142	494,094
Aug 10, 2020	48.2	47,483	301,619

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.