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2020 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2847th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2020
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 2, 2020 18:30 | June 3, 2020 00:30 | 6h | 2,369 | 1,849 |
| 2 | May 18, 2020 16:15 | May 18, 2020 20:00 | 3h 45m | 1,160 | 308 |
| 3 | February 4, 2020 05:15 | February 4, 2020 06:30 | 1h 15m | 1,051 | 852 |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 04:15 | July 9, 2020 07:15 | 3h | 812 | 1,651 |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 19:00 | June 9, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 668 | 172 |
| 6 | October 24, 2020 04:00 | October 24, 2020 10:30 | 6h 30m | 541 | 2,833 |
| 7 | July 15, 2020 20:00 | July 15, 2020 20:45 | 45m | 538 | 403 |
| 8 | July 10, 2020 23:15 | July 11, 2020 11:45 | 12h 30m | 401 | 1,528 |
| 9 | November 20, 2020 22:45 | November 20, 2020 23:00 | 15m | 324 | 81 |
| 10 | October 25, 2020 13:45 | October 25, 2020 17:00 | 3h 15m | 287 | 221 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 80 min | 0.78 |
| 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 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/nebraska/buffalo-county