Power outage history
Douglas County Nebraska
8.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
5th most of 28 in Nebraska 1.3× the national median
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 Douglas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Douglas, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 157,876 | 60% | 6.6 d | 4.9 d | 6.9M |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 138,192 | 53% | 5.6 d | 3.8 d | 4.4M |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 58,485 | 22% | 30 h | 37 h | 760k |
| Jun 16, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 35,038 | 13% | 48 h | 37 h | 547k |
| Oct 14, 2018 | Winter storm | 46,142 | 18% | 24 h | 15 h | 479k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 35,720 | 14% | 41 h | 34 h | 410k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 48,886 | 19% | 25 h | 22 h | 393k |
| Mar 20, 2025 | No storm report | 10,010 | 4% | 41 h | 48 h | 275k |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 26,010 | 10% | 14 h | 12 h | 176k |
| Aug 23, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 19,207 | 7% | 19 h | 21 h | 173k |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 24,723 | 9% | 17 h | 28 h | 154k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Winter storm | 8,407 | 3% | 19 h | 14 h | 103k |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,515 | 2% | 25 h | 35 h | 96k |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 11,979 | 5% | 14 h | 13 h | 86k |
| May 16, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 14,857 | 6% | 9.0 h | 5.0 h | 85k |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 13,809 | 5% | 7.5 h | 5.2 h | 65k |
| May 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,470 | 4% | 14 h | 8.5 h | 63k |
| Feb 2, 2016 | Winter storm | 16,581 | 6% | 6.0 h | 3.8 h | 61k |
| Aug 10, 2025 | No storm report | 6,653 | 3% | 15 h | 11 h | 61k |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Flooding | 12,635 | 5% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 52k |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 9,902 | 4% | 9.0 h | 15 h | 46k |
| May 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,563 | 4% | 5.5 h | 11 h | 40k |
| May 18, 2019 | No storm report | 7,887 | 3% | 5.8 h | 4.8 h | 39k |
| May 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,575 | 3% | 5.2 h | 4.5 h | 29k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,705 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 24k |
| Aug 12, 2024 | No storm report | 4,876 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 21k |
| Jun 9, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 6,102 | 2% | 4.2 h | 12 h | 21k |
| Aug 14, 2018 | No storm report | 9,588 | 4% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 19k |
| Jul 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 7,036 | 3% | 3.5 h | 6.2 h | 19k |
| May 28, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,297 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 17k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Douglas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 86%
- Winter storm 9.2%
- No storm on record 4.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Douglas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Public Power District | Political Subdivision | 558 | 98 | 1.57 | 13.3 | 369k |
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
- Washington 17 h
- Saunders 14 h
- Douglas (this county) 8.6 h
- Sarpy 6.5 h
- Pottawattamie, IA 3.0 h
- Dodge 2.4 h
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 261,904 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 →