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2018 Garden County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Garden County, NE went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 2,835 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 1854th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Garden County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2018 01:00 | May 28, 2018 04:15 | 3h 15m | 703 | 1,025 |
| 2 | May 18, 2018 04:15 | May 18, 2018 04:30 | 15m | 701 | 175 |
| 3 | April 13, 2018 17:15 | April 13, 2018 21:30 | 4h 15m | 697 | 1,422 |
| 4 | August 1, 2018 19:00 | August 1, 2018 19:45 | 45m | 73 | 55 |
| 5 | February 15, 2018 20:30 | February 15, 2018 21:30 | 1h | 26 | 20 |
| 6 | May 24, 2018 00:30 | May 24, 2018 02:30 | 2h | 11 | 20 |
| 7 | July 29, 2018 02:00 | July 29, 2018 04:00 | 2h | 11 | 17 |
| 8 | June 14, 2018 14:30 | June 15, 2018 00:00 | 9h 30m | 7 | 64 |
| 9 | July 16, 2018 13:30 | July 16, 2018 16:00 | 2h 30m | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | December 12, 2018 18:00 | December 12, 2018 23:00 | 5h | 3 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 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 Garden County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.74 | 49 min | 0.60 |
| Panhandle Rural El Member Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wheat Belt Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,392 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. Garden County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garden County, NE annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/nebraska/garden-county