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2018 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 4,372 customer-hours (Nebraska average 2.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 44 Nebraska counties and 2658th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2018 13:30 | June 29, 2018 14:45 | 1h 15m | 1,139 | 731 |
| 2 | June 5, 2018 19:45 | June 5, 2018 21:15 | 1h 30m | 703 | 178 |
| 3 | June 29, 2018 23:00 | June 30, 2018 01:00 | 2h | 398 | 122 |
| 4 | May 11, 2018 05:30 | May 11, 2018 06:45 | 1h 15m | 175 | 219 |
| 5 | May 19, 2018 13:00 | May 19, 2018 15:30 | 2h 30m | 175 | 72 |
| 6 | March 11, 2018 08:30 | March 11, 2018 16:30 | 8h | 165 | 254 |
| 7 | January 26, 2018 15:00 | January 26, 2018 15:45 | 45m | 60 | 45 |
| 8 | July 4, 2018 00:45 | July 4, 2018 01:45 | 1h | 56 | 30 |
| 9 | March 20, 2018 17:15 | March 20, 2018 23:15 | 6h | 53 | 238 |
| 10 | June 16, 2018 23:00 | June 17, 2018 01:00 | 2h | 52 | 97 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.74 | 49 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 45% of Nebraska's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/nebraska/buffalo-county