Saunders County, Nebraska Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Saunders County, Nebraska had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 1.70 times the Nebraska rate. It ranks 4 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Janhardest months

June and January made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2017, reached 2,660 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	6,169	7	0
2016	17,943	18	0
2017	76,861	12	2
2018	108,944	33	4
2019	21,716	22	0
2020	26,154	21	0
2021	80,984	16	4
2022	15,428	18	0
2023	3,119	11	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jun 17, 2017	65.5	2,660	62,690
Jan 23, 2018	24.0	2,840	35,172
Dec 15, 2021	26.8	2,341	28,119
Feb 19, 2018	25.2	1,777	26,199
Jul 10, 2021	21.2	974	20,193

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.