County annual report · FIPS 31019
2015 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 4,584 customer-hours (Nebraska average 0.8 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2307th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 10, 2015 05:15 | September 10, 2015 07:00 | 1h 45m | 566 | 991 |
| 2 | September 17, 2015 05:15 | September 17, 2015 06:00 | 45m | 566 | 425 |
| 3 | February 6, 2015 19:30 | February 6, 2015 20:30 | 1h | 193 | 50 |
| 4 | March 7, 2015 15:15 | March 7, 2015 16:30 | 1h 15m | 193 | 194 |
| 5 | November 18, 2015 04:15 | November 18, 2015 05:30 | 1h 15m | 102 | 128 |
| 6 | October 25, 2015 00:00 | October 25, 2015 02:30 | 2h 30m | 97 | 197 |
| 7 | February 10, 2015 15:00 | February 10, 2015 20:00 | 5h | 90 | 352 |
| 8 | November 24, 2015 19:00 | November 24, 2015 23:00 | 4h | 64 | 186 |
| 9 | July 6, 2015 06:15 | July 6, 2015 10:00 | 3h 45m | 59 | 22 |
| 10 | October 26, 2015 01:15 | October 26, 2015 02:45 | 1h 30m | 57 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Buffalo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2015 | 44 min | 0.60 | 44 min | 0.60 |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Custer Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dawson Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Nebraska's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 35,218 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Buffalo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buffalo County, NE annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/nebraska/buffalo-county