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2018 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 309 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2694th 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 Seward 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 | March 7, 2018 16:00 | March 7, 2018 19:00 | 3h | 66 | 198 |
| 2 | May 28, 2018 02:15 | May 28, 2018 04:15 | 2h | 56 | 87 |
| 3 | February 20, 2018 17:30 | February 20, 2018 18:00 | 30m | 10 | 5 |
| 4 | February 21, 2018 19:00 | February 21, 2018 21:45 | 2h 45m | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 19:30 | February 20, 2018 19:45 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 6 | May 30, 2018 13:15 | May 30, 2018 13:30 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | February 21, 2018 17:00 | February 21, 2018 17:45 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | March 7, 2018 14:15 | March 7, 2018 14:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | March 15, 2018 14:30 | March 15, 2018 15:30 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | April 13, 2018 13:15 | April 13, 2018 14:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 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 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 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.66 | 3.2 hrs | 1.66 |
| 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 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; 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, 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/seward-county