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2019 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2117th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2019
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 5, 2019 11:30 | June 5, 2019 14:45 | 3h 15m | 2,790 | 868 |
| 2 | August 15, 2019 23:15 | August 16, 2019 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,448 | 1,086 |
| 3 | May 2, 2019 11:30 | May 2, 2019 13:00 | 1h 30m | 961 | 511 |
| 4 | January 7, 2019 16:00 | January 7, 2019 17:00 | 1h | 801 | 201 |
| 5 | March 9, 2019 21:45 | March 10, 2019 01:00 | 3h 15m | 735 | 1,108 |
| 6 | January 13, 2019 21:15 | January 13, 2019 22:00 | 45m | 666 | 500 |
| 7 | May 28, 2019 07:45 | May 28, 2019 14:00 | 6h 15m | 567 | 1,706 |
| 8 | July 9, 2019 21:45 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 17d 20h | 420 | 42K |
| 9 | March 14, 2019 04:30 | March 14, 2019 22:00 | 17h 30m | 157 | 498 |
| 10 | February 13, 2019 15:00 | February 13, 2019 17:15 | 2h 15m | 127 | 165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2019, 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 46% of Nebraska's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/nebraska/buffalo-county