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2015 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 77 Kansas counties and 1652nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 6, 2015 05:00 | November 6, 2015 10:00 | 5h | 1,159 | 5,674 |
| 2 | September 11, 2015 01:00 | September 12, 2015 01:00 | 1d | 1,004 | 6,976 |
| 3 | November 22, 2015 16:00 | November 22, 2015 17:45 | 1h 45m | 364 | 637 |
| 4 | November 27, 2015 06:15 | November 27, 2015 06:30 | 15m | 364 | 91 |
| 5 | November 27, 2015 21:00 | December 1, 2015 18:15 | 3d 21h | 286 | 1,174 |
| 6 | November 27, 2015 07:30 | November 27, 2015 19:15 | 11h 45m | 202 | 650 |
| 7 | September 16, 2015 13:45 | September 16, 2015 15:00 | 1h 15m | 181 | 91 |
| 8 | November 17, 2015 05:00 | November 17, 2015 06:15 | 1h 15m | 108 | 48 |
| 9 | November 26, 2015 23:45 | November 27, 2015 03:00 | 3h 15m | 96 | 100 |
| 10 | November 2, 2015 17:30 | November 3, 2015 17:30 | 1d | 91 | 117 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 8 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2015 | 6.5 hrs | 2.04 | 2.9 hrs | 1.52 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 3.7 hrs | 1.50 | 1.5 hrs | 1.22 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Kansas's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/kansas/barton-county