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2019 Thurston County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Thurston County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 438 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2806th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Thurston County, 2019
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 19, 2019 16:30 | December 19, 2019 18:15 | 1h 45m | 341 | 434 |
| 2 | October 8, 2019 18:00 | October 8, 2019 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | October 10, 2019 23:15 | October 10, 2019 23:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | November 21, 2019 02:30 | November 21, 2019 04:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 1 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 Thurston County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Burt County Public Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cuming County Public Pwr Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northeast Power | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Emerson - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pender - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Walthill - (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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,240 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. Thurston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thurston County, NE annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/nebraska/thurston-county