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2023 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 1891st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Seward County, 2023
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 16, 2023 21:30 | May 17, 2023 11:45 | 14h 15m | 1,944 | 2,380 |
| 2 | March 29, 2023 18:45 | March 30, 2023 05:00 | 10h 15m | 524 | 896 |
| 3 | August 9, 2023 05:45 | August 9, 2023 13:30 | 7h 45m | 432 | 875 |
| 4 | June 22, 2023 21:30 | June 26, 2023 15:00 | 3d 17h | 411 | 707 |
| 5 | May 10, 2023 00:15 | May 10, 2023 13:00 | 12h 45m | 410 | 410 |
| 6 | April 19, 2023 02:45 | April 19, 2023 09:45 | 7h | 352 | 795 |
| 7 | March 27, 2023 17:15 | March 27, 2023 18:00 | 45m | 271 | 110 |
| 8 | August 15, 2023 13:45 | August 16, 2023 19:15 | 1d 5h | 210 | 1,179 |
| 9 | August 19, 2023 00:00 | August 21, 2023 15:30 | 2d 15h | 181 | 735 |
| 10 | August 1, 2023 13:45 | August 3, 2023 20:30 | 2d 6h | 173 | 573 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 70 min | 0.60 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2023 | 4.0 hrs | 1.78 | 4.0 hrs | 1.78 |
| 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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/nebraska/seward-county