Keith County Nebraska

0.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

24th most of 28 in Nebraska 90% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 13, 2018 37% of customers out · 90% back in 21 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 0.7h / yr State average 4.8 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.2 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 28hours Apr 13, 2018, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 75% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2023 1.7 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 7,643 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Keith'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Keith, hours without power per customer

KeithUS median countyNebraska average

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
Apr 13, 2018	Winter storm	2,819	37%	28 h	21 h	27k
Jan 2, 2023	Winter storm	2,355	31%	5.0 h	5.0 h	10k
Jan 14, 2020	No storm report	2,381	31%	5.8 h	5.8 h	2.9k
Feb 16, 2021	No storm report	2,411	32%	48 min	30 min	1.8k
Jul 4, 2018	No storm report	989	13%	1.5 h	1.0 h	1.4k
Dec 13, 2022	Winter storm	304	4%	8.5 h	–	1.1k
Sep 8, 2020	No storm report	1,195	16%	1.0 h	30 min	1.0k
Jun 24, 2022	Thunderstorms	450	6%	2.8 h	2.2 h	880
May 4, 2023	No storm report	567	7%	1.5 h	1.5 h	850
Jul 28, 2021	No storm report	165	2%	4.2 h	–	636
Sep 15, 2022	No storm report	766	10%	48 min	48 min	574
May 4, 2023	No storm report	567	7%	1.0 h	8.5 h	567
Aug 26, 2021	No storm report	165	2%	3.2 h	–	536
Nov 17, 2016	No storm report	426	6%	2.0 h	8.8 h	471
Mar 22, 2025	No storm report	183	2%	2.2 h	–	412
Jul 15, 2020	No storm report	439	6%	3.0 h	3.0 h	391
Oct 6, 2020	No storm report	319	4%	1.0 h	–	318
Jun 24, 2025	No storm report	457	6%	1.8 h	48 min	302
Jan 16, 2015	No storm report	560	7%	30 min	30 min	280
Jun 20, 2017	No storm report	433	6%	30 min	30 min	216
Jul 19, 2018	No storm report	424	6%	30 min	12 min	212
May 17, 2024	No storm report	169	2%	1.2 h	–	210
Jun 25, 2020	No storm report	120	2%	1.8 h	–	206
Aug 19, 2015	No storm report	259	3%	1.0 h	–	204
Jun 7, 2020	No storm report	264	3%	1.0 h	–	198
Jun 28, 2016	Thunderstorms	106	1%	1.8 h	–	181
Oct 3, 2021	No storm report	164	2%	1.0 h	–	164
Jan 13, 2021	Windstorm	133	2%	1.0 h	–	133
Jun 10, 2025	No storm report	482	6%	12 min	12 min	120
Sep 6, 2022	No storm report	436	6%	12 min	–	109

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.

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

Winter storm 73%
No storm on record 25%
Thunderstorms 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Keith

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
Midwest Electric Member Corp	Cooperative	65	65	0.39	12.0	2.4k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration	Federal	–	–	–	–	–

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.

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 7,643 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 →