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2024 Howard County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Howard County, NE went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 93 customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2962nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2024
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 5, 2024 13:30 | September 5, 2024 16:00 | 2h 30m | 20 | 50 |
| 2 | February 22, 2024 14:00 | February 22, 2024 15:30 | 1h 30m | 19 | 29 |
| 3 | July 31, 2024 15:30 | July 31, 2024 16:00 | 30m | 19 | 10 |
| 4 | December 22, 2024 15:15 | December 22, 2024 16:00 | 45m | 7 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 74 min | 0.74 | 74 min | 0.74 |
| 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 n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/nebraska/howard-county