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2022 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 54 Nebraska counties and 2804th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 13, 2022 20:30 | August 14, 2022 00:15 | 3h 45m | 4,145 | 5,170 |
| 2 | July 4, 2022 05:15 | July 4, 2022 08:45 | 3h 30m | 2,793 | 4,895 |
| 3 | September 1, 2022 10:00 | September 1, 2022 12:00 | 2h | 1,139 | 435 |
| 4 | March 30, 2022 00:30 | March 30, 2022 02:00 | 1h 30m | 957 | 719 |
| 5 | April 30, 2022 08:00 | April 30, 2022 09:15 | 1h 15m | 819 | 211 |
| 6 | April 29, 2022 22:45 | April 30, 2022 00:15 | 1h 30m | 818 | 1,049 |
| 7 | December 22, 2022 06:45 | December 22, 2022 09:30 | 2h 45m | 674 | 1,091 |
| 8 | July 23, 2022 04:45 | July 23, 2022 05:15 | 30m | 583 | 292 |
| 9 | May 20, 2022 14:30 | May 20, 2022 18:00 | 3h 30m | 442 | 365 |
| 10 | June 14, 2022 23:00 | June 15, 2022 00:00 | 1h | 438 | 438 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 17 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 | 78 min | 0.81 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/nebraska/buffalo-county