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2016 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 3,197 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 1997th 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 Seward 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 | February 2, 2016 11:45 | February 2, 2016 14:00 | 2h 15m | 1,001 | 2,248 |
| 2 | August 16, 2016 12:15 | August 16, 2016 13:30 | 1h 15m | 504 | 630 |
| 3 | December 6, 2016 19:15 | December 6, 2016 21:00 | 1h 45m | 63 | 110 |
| 4 | August 30, 2016 02:15 | August 30, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 53 | 113 |
| 5 | July 22, 2016 21:00 | July 22, 2016 21:45 | 45m | 22 | 7 |
| 6 | March 15, 2016 13:15 | March 15, 2016 14:15 | 1h | 16 | 16 |
| 7 | June 16, 2016 00:45 | June 16, 2016 03:00 | 2h 15m | 13 | 26 |
| 8 | July 10, 2016 22:00 | July 11, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 8 | 7 |
| 9 | December 12, 2016 23:30 | December 13, 2016 00:15 | 45m | 8 | 6 |
| 10 | January 30, 2016 01:00 | January 30, 2016 02:45 | 1h 45m | 7 | 6 |
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 Seward 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 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.29 | 2.9 hrs | 1.29 |
| Perennial Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler Public Power District - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Seward - (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 ÷ 5,805 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. Seward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Seward 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/seward-county