County annual report · FIPS 31019
2016 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 43 Nebraska counties and 2095th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 5, 2016 23:30 | July 6, 2016 04:45 | 5h 15m | 1,128 | 324 |
| 2 | July 22, 2016 02:30 | July 22, 2016 06:30 | 4h | 1,011 | 318 |
| 3 | January 8, 2016 03:30 | January 8, 2016 06:15 | 2h 45m | 1,005 | 2,261 |
| 4 | May 5, 2016 16:15 | May 12, 2016 15:45 | 6d 23h | 963 | 1,130 |
| 5 | July 27, 2016 06:30 | July 27, 2016 10:45 | 4h 15m | 787 | 1,355 |
| 6 | August 13, 2016 15:45 | August 13, 2016 17:00 | 1h 15m | 691 | 518 |
| 7 | August 22, 2016 12:45 | August 23, 2016 13:45 | 1d 1h | 558 | 1,112 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 17:45 | July 15, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 536 | 804 |
| 9 | March 29, 2016 07:00 | March 29, 2016 09:00 | 2h | 530 | 757 |
| 10 | November 7, 2016 11:30 | November 7, 2016 19:15 | 7h 45m | 403 | 543 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 67 min | 0.70 | 53 min | 0.62 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/nebraska/buffalo-county