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2017 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 5,824 customer-hours (Nebraska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2039th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Seward County, 2017
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 24, 2017 12:00 | February 24, 2017 14:15 | 2h 15m | 999 | 2,246 |
| 2 | August 20, 2017 06:00 | August 20, 2017 15:45 | 9h 45m | 998 | 3,405 |
| 3 | February 24, 2017 19:00 | February 25, 2017 00:00 | 5h | 54 | 138 |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 13:15 | June 14, 2017 14:30 | 1h 15m | 11 | 14 |
| 5 | October 1, 2017 14:45 | October 1, 2017 16:30 | 1h 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | April 5, 2017 19:00 | April 5, 2017 19:30 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | May 15, 2017 15:45 | May 15, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | January 16, 2017 17:00 | January 16, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | January 17, 2017 14:45 | January 17, 2017 18:15 | 3h 30m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | February 21, 2017 19:00 | February 21, 2017 19:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.83 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2017 | 7.8 hrs | 1.75 | 2.7 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/nebraska/seward-county