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2016 Hamilton County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hamilton County, NE went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,027 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 1653rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hamilton County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 26, 2016 00:45 | December 26, 2016 21:45 | 21h | 2,149 | 4,951 |
| 2 | February 19, 2016 08:45 | February 19, 2016 10:00 | 1h 15m | 751 | 752 |
| 3 | April 15, 2016 16:15 | April 15, 2016 18:00 | 1h 45m | 14 | 21 |
| 4 | May 29, 2016 17:30 | May 29, 2016 19:15 | 1h 45m | 13 | 23 |
| 5 | June 2, 2016 14:00 | June 2, 2016 17:15 | 3h 15m | 13 | 42 |
| 6 | June 14, 2016 04:15 | June 14, 2016 05:00 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | January 14, 2016 00:00 | January 14, 2016 01:15 | 1h 15m | 11 | 14 |
| 8 | August 15, 2016 02:00 | August 15, 2016 04:15 | 2h 15m | 11 | 21 |
| 9 | January 4, 2016 06:00 | January 4, 2016 06:15 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 10 | March 16, 2016 18:30 | March 16, 2016 19:30 | 1h | 10 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Hamilton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2016 | 67 min | 0.70 | 53 min | 0.62 |
| Polk County Rural Pub Pwr Dist | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Perennial Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Public Pwr Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Giltner - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Hampton - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,863 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Hamilton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hamilton County, NE annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/nebraska/hamilton-county