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2020 Thurston County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Thurston County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 466 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2929th 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 Thurston 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 | May 31, 2020 21:30 | May 31, 2020 23:45 | 2h 15m | 133 | 299 |
| 2 | August 20, 2020 16:00 | August 20, 2020 17:15 | 1h 15m | 29 | 26 |
| 3 | August 6, 2020 18:00 | August 6, 2020 20:15 | 2h 15m | 28 | 63 |
| 4 | February 14, 2020 12:00 | February 14, 2020 13:45 | 1h 45m | 13 | 5 |
| 5 | December 17, 2020 18:15 | December 17, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 10 | 23 |
| 6 | July 6, 2020 15:45 | July 6, 2020 16:15 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | February 14, 2020 15:00 | February 14, 2020 16:30 | 1h 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | October 24, 2020 16:15 | October 24, 2020 17:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | October 10, 2020 17:45 | October 10, 2020 20:45 | 3h | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | November 10, 2020 10:30 | November 11, 2020 13:00 | 1d 2h | 2 | 29 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 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 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 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/thurston-county