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2021 Howard County, NE Power Outage Report

In 2021, customers in Howard County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 87 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2948th of 2,974 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.0
4,588 customers
Customer-hours out
87
Peak customers out
18
Outages ≥1,000 out
0
0 of 10,000+ · 2 total
Longest outage
4h 30m
began November 21, 2021
Rank in state
52nd/54
2948th of 2,974 US

Compared with NE, the US and 2020

Howard County, NE average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2021Howard County 0.0 hours, Nebraska average 8.3 hours, US average 8.9 hours, Howard County, 2020 0.0 hoursHoward CountyHoward County0.0hNebraska averageNebraska average8.3hUS averageUS average8.9hHoward County, 2020Howard County, 20200.0h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2021; last bar is this county in 2020.

Month by month

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Howard County, NE customer-hours without power by month, 2021Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 0, Jul 0, Aug 6, Sep 0, Oct 0, Nov 81, Dec 002550751000Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May0Jun0Jul6Aug0Sep0Oct81Nov0Dec
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Customer-hours; November was the worst month.

Howard County year over year

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Howard County, NE: average hours without power per customer by year2015: no data; 2016: no data; 2017: no data; 2018: no data; 2019: no data; 2020: 0.0h, coverage 48%; 2021: 0.0h, coverage 48%; 2022: 0.0h, coverage 48%; 2023: no data; 2024: 0.0h; 2025: 0.1h000.10.10.10%50%100%n/a2015n/a2016n/a2017n/a2018n/a20190.0h20200.0h20210.0h2022n/a20230.0h20240.1h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Howard County, 2021

The 2 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1November 21, 2021 13:15November 21, 2021 17:454h 30m1881
2August 15, 2021 10:30August 15, 2021 11:301h66

Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Nebraska Public Power District20214.0 hrs1.1471 min0.66
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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/nebraska/howard-county

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Live outages in Howard County2021 Nebraska report2021 US report