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2022 Howard County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Howard County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 149 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2949th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2022
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 8, 2022 21:15 | March 8, 2022 22:30 | 1h 15m | 18 | 23 |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 19:45 | May 12, 2022 21:45 | 2h | 18 | 36 |
| 3 | May 24, 2022 18:45 | May 24, 2022 19:30 | 45m | 18 | 14 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 09:00 | May 30, 2022 13:15 | 4h 15m | 18 | 77 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 | 78 min | 0.81 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/nebraska/howard-county