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

Power outage history

Thurston County Nebraska

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

Worst outage on record Mar 28, 2016 16% of customers out · 90% back in 4.8 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% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11hours Mar 19, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 11% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 3,240 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 Thurston'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

Thurston, hours without power per customer

ThurstonUS 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
Mar 28, 2016 No storm report 531 16% 5.8 h 4.8 h 3.0k
Sep 14, 2025 No storm report 341 11% 3.8 h 3.8 h 1.3k
Sep 30, 2021 No storm report 926 29% 48 min 48 min 694
Mar 19, 2025 Winter storm 58 2% 11 h – 576
Dec 19, 2019 No storm report 341 11% 1.2 h 1.2 h 426
Jul 18, 2015 No storm report 170 5% 2.2 h 2.2 h 382
Jan 7, 2021 No storm report 252 8% 1.5 h 1.8 h 378
May 31, 2020 No storm report 133 4% 2.2 h – 299
Apr 28, 2024 No storm report 143 4% 2.0 h – 286
Jun 2, 2024 No storm report 143 4% 1.8 h – 250
Sep 11, 2024 No storm report 46 1% 4.2 h – 196
Sep 15, 2025 No storm report 340 10% 30 min 30 min 170

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

  • No storm on record 89%
  • Winter storm 11%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Thurston

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
Burt County Public Power Dist NE – – – 13.1 62k
Cuming County Public Pwr Dist NE – – – 10.0 52k
Northeast Power Political Subdivision – – – 9.6 6.9k
City of Emerson NE – – – – 5.8k
City of Pender NE – – – – 5.3k
Village of Walthill NE – – – – 2.8k

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 3,240 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 →