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2024 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2083rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Seward County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 9, 2024 10:45 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | 3h 15m | 800 | 2,158 |
| 2 | March 3, 2024 23:45 | March 4, 2024 13:00 | 13h 15m | 471 | 446 |
| 3 | June 5, 2024 03:00 | June 5, 2024 19:30 | 16h 30m | 414 | 788 |
| 4 | October 22, 2024 03:30 | October 22, 2024 05:45 | 2h 15m | 380 | 673 |
| 5 | August 2, 2024 01:45 | August 5, 2024 13:15 | 3d 11h | 226 | 636 |
| 6 | July 13, 2024 14:45 | July 13, 2024 19:15 | 4h 30m | 205 | 381 |
| 7 | May 13, 2024 17:15 | May 13, 2024 19:15 | 2h | 161 | 242 |
| 8 | June 6, 2024 00:15 | June 6, 2024 19:00 | 18h 45m | 156 | 214 |
| 9 | March 18, 2024 13:15 | March 19, 2024 20:30 | 1d 7h | 150 | 129 |
| 10 | April 6, 2024 20:15 | April 7, 2024 03:30 | 7h 15m | 140 | 387 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 14 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 Seward 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 |
| Norris Public Power District | 2024 | 3.4 hrs | 1.60 | 3.3 hrs | 1.57 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/seward-county