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2020 Howard County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 16 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 3002nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2020
The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2020 15:00 | December 8, 2020 18:30 | 3h 30m | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | December 6, 2020 00:30 | December 6, 2020 02:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | December 9, 2020 15:15 | December 9, 2020 17:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | December 17, 2020 15:30 | December 17, 2020 16:00 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | December 22, 2020 16:15 | December 22, 2020 20:00 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Howard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 80 min | 0.78 |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Howard Greeley Rural P P D | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St Paul - (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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,588 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. Howard County has data for 2020–2022, 2024–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard County, NE annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/nebraska/howard-county