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2025 Seward County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Seward County, NE went without power for an average of 83.8 hours, a total of 487K customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 37th 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 Seward County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 19, 2025 09:00 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 1d 11h | 5,874 | 158K |
| 2 | August 9, 2025 03:15 | August 13, 2025 01:00 | 3d 21h | 4,353 | 86K |
| 3 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | April 11, 2025 16:15 | 21d 16h | 3,957 | 217K |
| 4 | June 1, 2025 21:30 | June 2, 2025 12:00 | 14h 30m | 3,054 | 3,049 |
| 5 | September 12, 2025 22:30 | September 15, 2025 18:30 | 2d 20h | 1,184 | 5,124 |
| 6 | April 28, 2025 12:15 | April 28, 2025 14:00 | 1h 45m | 500 | 259 |
| 7 | July 9, 2025 01:15 | July 9, 2025 11:45 | 10h 30m | 473 | 498 |
| 8 | March 14, 2025 21:15 | March 17, 2025 19:00 | 2d 21h | 265 | 1,094 |
| 9 | January 9, 2025 15:30 | January 9, 2025 16:45 | 1h 15m | 208 | 208 |
| 10 | September 18, 2025 20:45 | September 19, 2025 11:45 | 15h | 205 | 2,862 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/seward-county