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2018 Perkins County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Perkins County, NE went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 3,082 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 1956th 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 Perkins 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 | January 11, 2018 14:15 | January 12, 2018 21:45 | 1d 7h | 436 | 799 |
| 2 | April 13, 2018 21:30 | April 14, 2018 14:15 | 16h 45m | 116 | 1,852 |
| 3 | April 14, 2018 16:00 | April 14, 2018 21:00 | 5h | 116 | 324 |
| 4 | May 11, 2018 13:00 | May 11, 2018 16:15 | 3h 15m | 17 | 35 |
| 5 | May 29, 2018 13:30 | May 29, 2018 15:30 | 2h | 17 | 26 |
| 6 | July 29, 2018 15:30 | July 29, 2018 17:00 | 1h 30m | 8 | 9 |
| 7 | January 23, 2018 22:00 | January 23, 2018 23:15 | 1h 15m | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 15:00 | April 4, 2018 17:15 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | July 2, 2018 21:45 | July 2, 2018 22:45 | 1h | 5 | 2 |
| 10 | March 1, 2018 22:00 | March 1, 2018 22:30 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
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 Perkins 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 |
| Midwest Electric Member Corp - (NE) | 2013 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Highline Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Grant - (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 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,727 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. Perkins County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Perkins 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/perkins-county