City of Fremont, NE
City of Fremont's outage record
City of Fremont customers in Nebraska are among the worst-served in the country: 1.8 outages last year, 51.3 hours without power in total. That is 463% more outage time than the Nebraska state average of 9.1 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Fremont looks like
28.5 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 16,688 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at City of Fremont is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Fremont files with federal regulators every year - serving 16,688 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Nebraska average instead of just this one utility? Nebraska's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.