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

Power outage history

Garden County Nebraska

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

Worst outage on record Jul 16, 2025 46% of customers out · 90% back in 3.8 hours
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% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 10hours Apr 30, 2016, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 34% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 1,392 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 Garden's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Garden, hours without power per customer

GardenUS median countyNebraska average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 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
Jul 16, 2025 No storm report 635 46% 3.8 h 3.8 h 2.4k
Apr 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 695 50% 3.2 h 3.0 h 2.1k
Apr 30, 2016 Winter storm 697 50% 10 h 7.2 h 1.6k
Jan 3, 2015 No storm report 1,392 100% 2.0 h 2.0 h 1.5k
Apr 13, 2018 Winter storm 697 50% 4.0 h 3.0 h 1.4k
Dec 5, 2023 No storm report 705 51% 6.0 h 1.8 h 1.4k
Apr 5, 2023 No storm report 700 50% 1.8 h 1.5 h 1.1k
Jun 28, 2020 No storm report 699 50% 2.2 h 1.5 h 1.1k
May 27, 2018 Thunderstorms 703 51% 3.2 h 3.2 h 1.0k
Mar 29, 2017 No storm report 1,004 72% 1.0 h 1.0 h 1.0k
Aug 6, 2017 No storm report 707 51% 5.0 h 5.0 h 999
Mar 9, 2019 No storm report 700 50% 1.8 h 1.8 h 925

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +2h

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 Garden from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 66%
  • Thunderstorms 26%
  • Winter storm 7.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Garden

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
Nebraska Public Power District Political Subdivision 195 77 0.90 10.9 74k
Wheat Belt Public Power Dist NE – – – 13.8 35k
Panhandle Rural El Member Assn NE – – – 14.0 31k

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 1,392 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 →