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2025 Buffalo County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Buffalo County, NE went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Nebraska average 6.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 55 Nebraska counties and 2783rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 19, 2025 09:30 | March 20, 2025 18:30 | 1d 9h | 4,175 | 13K |
| 2 | March 4, 2025 12:15 | March 4, 2025 17:15 | 5h | 2,957 | 1,124 |
| 3 | November 15, 2025 02:45 | November 15, 2025 04:45 | 2h | 2,861 | 1,439 |
| 4 | April 7, 2025 12:45 | April 14, 2025 12:15 | 6d 23h | 1,333 | 1,696 |
| 5 | September 30, 2025 05:00 | September 30, 2025 07:30 | 2h 30m | 1,137 | 2,840 |
| 6 | June 3, 2025 03:30 | June 3, 2025 08:45 | 5h 15m | 1,027 | 4,036 |
| 7 | March 6, 2025 20:15 | March 6, 2025 23:00 | 2h 45m | 663 | 454 |
| 8 | April 25, 2025 12:00 | April 25, 2025 12:45 | 45m | 413 | 210 |
| 9 | September 29, 2025 01:15 | September 29, 2025 04:00 | 2h 45m | 408 | 532 |
| 10 | May 19, 2025 00:45 | May 19, 2025 03:15 | 2h 30m | 397 | 596 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/nebraska/buffalo-county