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2025 Howard County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Howard County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 408 customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2946th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2025
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 20, 2025 11:15 | February 20, 2025 15:45 | 4h 30m | 20 | 89 |
| 2 | June 17, 2025 02:15 | June 17, 2025 04:15 | 2h | 20 | 40 |
| 3 | July 24, 2025 00:30 | July 24, 2025 02:00 | 1h 30m | 20 | 29 |
| 4 | September 5, 2025 13:15 | September 5, 2025 18:00 | 4h 45m | 20 | 95 |
| 5 | September 19, 2025 14:00 | September 19, 2025 16:45 | 2h 45m | 20 | 55 |
| 6 | March 19, 2025 09:30 | March 19, 2025 14:45 | 5h 15m | 19 | 100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/nebraska/howard-county