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2021 Thurston County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Thurston County, NE went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,091 customer-hours (Nebraska average 8.3 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2845th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Thurston County, 2021
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 30, 2021 22:30 | September 30, 2021 23:30 | 1h | 926 | 695 |
| 2 | January 7, 2021 09:15 | January 7, 2021 13:30 | 4h 15m | 252 | 383 |
| 3 | October 13, 2021 20:00 | October 13, 2021 21:30 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 4 | April 12, 2021 14:30 | April 12, 2021 16:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | June 18, 2021 14:30 | June 18, 2021 14:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | June 22, 2021 00:15 | June 22, 2021 00:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | December 16, 2021 06:00 | December 16, 2021 06:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.14 | 71 min | 0.66 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/thurston-county