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2023 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.2 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 53 Nebraska counties and 2848th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 30, 2023 18:00 | October 30, 2023 19:15 | 1h 15m | 669 | 835 |
| 2 | July 16, 2023 21:00 | July 17, 2023 00:30 | 3h 30m | 394 | 1,374 |
| 3 | May 12, 2023 16:45 | May 12, 2023 18:30 | 1h 45m | 220 | 385 |
| 4 | June 9, 2023 23:30 | June 10, 2023 01:30 | 2h | 197 | 394 |
| 5 | May 25, 2023 16:30 | May 25, 2023 20:15 | 3h 45m | 156 | 176 |
| 6 | February 19, 2023 15:15 | February 19, 2023 23:45 | 8h 30m | 128 | 396 |
| 7 | May 9, 2023 12:45 | May 9, 2023 20:30 | 7h 45m | 122 | 309 |
| 8 | August 25, 2023 04:00 | August 25, 2023 09:15 | 5h 15m | 103 | 296 |
| 9 | November 16, 2023 14:30 | November 17, 2023 15:00 | 1d | 96 | 2,258 |
| 10 | April 15, 2023 11:30 | April 16, 2023 00:15 | 12h 45m | 76 | 206 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 70 min | 0.60 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| Custer Public Power District | 2023 | 89 min | 0.80 | 82 min | 0.58 |
| Southern 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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/nebraska/buffalo-county