Power outages in Nebraska, by utility
Across 9 Nebraska utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3.3 hours in 2025 — that is 1.1× the national median. Nebraska ranks #19 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3.3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 51.4 hrs
- City of Fremont - (NE)
- Best utility
- 0.6 hrs
- City of Grand Island - (NE)
- Utilities reporting
- 9
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Nebraska utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Fremont - (NE)Municipal | 51.3 hrs3081 min | 1.8 | 17.3× worse |
| 2 | Norris Public Power DistrictPolitical Subdivision | 42.4 hrs2541 min | 3.1 | 14.3× worse |
| 3 | Omaha Public Power DistrictPolitical Subdivision | 9.3 hrs558 min | 1.6 | 3.1× worse |
| 4 | Lincoln Electric SystemMunicipal | 4 hrs241 min | 0.7 | 1.4× worse |
| 5 | Nebraska Public Power DistrictPolitical Subdivision | 3.3 hrs195 min | 0.9 | 1.1× worse |
| 6 | Southwest Public Power DistPolitical Subdivision | 1.3 hrs80 min | 1.0 | 2.2× better |
| 7 | Midwest Electric Member Corp - (NE)Cooperative | 1.1 hrs65 min | 0.4 | 2.7× better |
| 8 | City of Hastings - (NE)Municipal | 0.8 hrs50 min | 0.3 | 3.6× better |
| 9 | City of Grand Island - (NE)Municipal | 0.6 hrs37 min | 1.0 | 4.8× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Only 9 utilities in Nebraska reported, so this ranking covers part of the state rather than all of it. Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.