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2017 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Nebraska average 4.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 42 Nebraska counties and 2186th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2017 01:30 | May 16, 2017 04:30 | 3h | 8,346 | 8,476 |
| 2 | September 27, 2017 03:45 | September 27, 2017 05:45 | 2h | 2,170 | 2,095 |
| 3 | March 24, 2017 03:30 | March 24, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 1,050 | 272 |
| 4 | May 17, 2017 04:45 | May 17, 2017 07:15 | 2h 30m | 966 | 1,933 |
| 5 | August 27, 2017 08:45 | August 27, 2017 23:15 | 14h 30m | 780 | 2,415 |
| 6 | July 11, 2017 16:45 | July 11, 2017 19:15 | 2h 30m | 779 | 1,763 |
| 7 | March 24, 2017 08:15 | March 24, 2017 10:00 | 1h 45m | 672 | 230 |
| 8 | November 5, 2017 06:00 | November 5, 2017 08:00 | 2h | 535 | 1,070 |
| 9 | April 9, 2017 14:15 | April 9, 2017 16:15 | 2h | 484 | 176 |
| 10 | August 13, 2017 04:00 | August 14, 2017 00:45 | 20h 45m | 332 | 956 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 14 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.83 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/nebraska/buffalo-county