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2024 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Nebraska average 12.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2855th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 2, 2024 18:30 | April 3, 2024 00:00 | 5h 30m | 1,365 | 1,824 |
| 2 | June 8, 2024 01:15 | June 8, 2024 05:00 | 3h 45m | 994 | 1,321 |
| 3 | July 4, 2024 01:15 | July 4, 2024 03:45 | 2h 30m | 672 | 513 |
| 4 | September 22, 2024 19:15 | September 22, 2024 22:00 | 2h 45m | 416 | 1,144 |
| 5 | October 6, 2024 18:15 | October 7, 2024 19:45 | 1d 1h | 416 | 754 |
| 6 | May 4, 2024 03:45 | May 4, 2024 08:15 | 4h 30m | 412 | 1,854 |
| 7 | November 27, 2024 19:00 | November 27, 2024 19:45 | 45m | 372 | 279 |
| 8 | August 27, 2024 02:45 | August 27, 2024 05:15 | 2h 30m | 156 | 390 |
| 9 | November 9, 2024 23:15 | November 10, 2024 00:45 | 1h 30m | 156 | 233 |
| 10 | February 6, 2024 15:15 | February 6, 2024 21:45 | 6h 30m | 141 | 125 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 13 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 74 min | 0.74 | 74 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/nebraska/buffalo-county