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

Power outage history

Lancaster County Nebraska

0.5hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

27th most of 28 in Nebraska 93% below the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 19, 2025 3% of customers out · 90% back in 36 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.5h / yr State average 4.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 29hours Mar 19, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 1.8 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 165,006 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Lancaster's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lancaster, hours without power per customer

LancasterUS median countyNebraska average
0 2 4 6 8 ’19 0.3 ’20 0.2 ’21 0.2 ’22 0.1 ’23 0.2 ’24 1.8 ’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
Mar 19, 2025 Winter storm 5,695 3% 29 h 36 h 127k
Mar 20, 2025 No storm report 3,331 2% 24 h – 64k
Aug 9, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,608 2% 6.8 h – 12k
Jul 31, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,194 2% 2.8 h – 7.5k

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

  • Winter storm 60%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Thunderstorms 9.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lancaster

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
Lincoln Electric System Municipal 241 18 0.74 11.2 137k
Nebraska Public Power District Political Subdivision 195 77 0.90 10.9 74k
City of Nebraska City NE – – – 10.9 57k
Norris Public Power District Political Subdivision 2,541 465 3.12 9.5 19k

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 165,006 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 →