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2020 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 1434th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Seward County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 3, 2020 13:45 | June 5, 2020 17:30 | 2d 3h | 833 | 6,496 |
| 2 | March 12, 2020 01:30 | March 16, 2020 12:00 | 4d 10h | 715 | 1,005 |
| 3 | April 11, 2020 04:15 | April 13, 2020 17:00 | 2d 12h | 424 | 1,231 |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 05:45 | July 10, 2020 20:15 | 1d 14h | 405 | 4,237 |
| 5 | November 10, 2020 05:15 | November 10, 2020 22:00 | 16h 45m | 231 | 1,112 |
| 6 | June 11, 2020 20:45 | June 12, 2020 16:30 | 19h 45m | 214 | 342 |
| 7 | August 14, 2020 22:15 | August 17, 2020 21:00 | 2d 22h | 213 | 453 |
| 8 | July 6, 2020 20:30 | July 7, 2020 01:45 | 5h 15m | 210 | 234 |
| 9 | October 10, 2020 11:45 | October 12, 2020 20:30 | 2d 8h | 177 | 1,695 |
| 10 | April 16, 2020 19:45 | April 16, 2020 21:30 | 1h 45m | 170 | 107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 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 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 1.87 | 3.7 hrs | 1.87 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 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/seward-county