Boyd County, Nebraska Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

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Boyd County, Nebraska had 1 major outage from 2016 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 8 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 8years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 14, 2018, reached 523 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 41.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	944	5	0
2017	4,562	4	0
2018	13,473	3	1
2019	4,702	6	0
2020	1,073	1	0
2021	747	1	0
2022	3,477	4	0
2023	251	2	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
Apr 14, 2018	41.8	523	12,800
Jun 4, 2017	4.2	525	2,231
Mar 14, 2019	3.5	519	1,816
Sep 18, 2022	4.2	425	1,806
Sep 9, 2017	6.2	282	1,762

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.
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