Power Out Map
– 0% of Clay out 0 customers out in Nebraska

Power outage history

Clay County Nebraska

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Dec 26, 2020 2% of customers out · lasted 48 min
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 4.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 1hours Dec 26, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 4,226 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Clay's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Clay, hours without power per customer

ClayUS median countyNebraska average
0 2 4 6 8 ’20 US 6.6 NE 4.8

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Dec 26, 2020 No storm report 99 2% 48 min – 74

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Clay from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 100%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Clay

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Nebraska territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Southern Public Power District Political Subdivision – – – 9.1 15k
City of Hastings Municipal 50 7 0.30 11.8 12k
City of Sutton NE – – – – 7.2k
Perennial Public Power Dist Political Subdivision 2,100 84 2.88 10.1 4.1k
South Central Public Pwr Dist Political Subdivision 162 118 0.97 9.5 3.8k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Nebraska

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Nebraska counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 4,226 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →