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2015 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 9,643 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 77 Kansas counties and 2042nd 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 Ellis 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 16, 2015 01:00 | November 16, 2015 01:15 | 15m | 4,220 | 1,055 |
| 2 | October 4, 2015 14:15 | October 4, 2015 18:30 | 4h 15m | 1,796 | 2,662 |
| 3 | October 15, 2015 16:45 | October 15, 2015 17:30 | 45m | 1,765 | 1,324 |
| 4 | October 14, 2015 18:00 | October 14, 2015 18:15 | 15m | 940 | 235 |
| 5 | September 11, 2015 00:00 | September 11, 2015 05:00 | 5h | 528 | 960 |
| 6 | October 8, 2015 20:00 | October 8, 2015 20:15 | 15m | 527 | 132 |
| 7 | December 6, 2015 17:00 | December 6, 2015 21:30 | 4h 30m | 470 | 2,115 |
| 8 | November 17, 2015 05:00 | November 17, 2015 20:30 | 15h 30m | 82 | 175 |
| 9 | December 14, 2015 16:30 | December 14, 2015 22:15 | 5h 45m | 74 | 182 |
| 10 | November 22, 2015 09:15 | November 22, 2015 12:00 | 2h 45m | 65 | 97 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 7 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 Ellis 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 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county