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

Power outage history

Cedar County Nebraska

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

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 9% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 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% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6hours May 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 5,363 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 Cedar's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Cedar, hours without power per customer

CedarUS median countyNebraska average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’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
May 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 500 9% 6.0 h 5.2 h 1.7k
Apr 7, 2021 No storm report 483 9% 1.5 h 1.5 h 723
Feb 2, 2024 No storm report 484 9% 1.0 h 48 min 484
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 940 18% 30 min 30 min 470
May 21, 2024 Thunderstorms 929 17% 30 min 30 min 464
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 458 9% 48 min 48 min 267
Feb 27, 2024 No storm report 457 9% 30 min 30 min 228
Dec 26, 2023 No storm report 457 9% 30 min 30 min 228
Sep 20, 2021 No storm report 483 9% 12 min – 121
Jun 2, 2024 No storm report 71 1% 1.5 h – 106
May 17, 2019 No storm report 69 1% 48 min – 50

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +2h

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 Cedar from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Thunderstorms 44%
  • Winter storm 9.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Cedar

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
City of Laurel NE – – – – 9.0k
Cedar-Knox Public Power Dist Political Subdivision – – – 9.0 6.0k
City of Randolph NE – – – – 4.4k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

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 5,363 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 →