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2015 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 456 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 77 Kansas counties and 2154th 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 Ness 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 | October 12, 2015 16:15 | October 12, 2015 16:30 | 15m | 270 | 68 |
| 2 | October 24, 2015 09:00 | October 24, 2015 09:30 | 30m | 137 | 69 |
| 3 | December 14, 2015 04:45 | December 14, 2015 17:00 | 12h 15m | 50 | 97 |
| 4 | December 14, 2015 20:45 | December 15, 2015 21:45 | 1d 1h | 21 | 79 |
| 5 | November 17, 2015 05:00 | November 17, 2015 12:00 | 7h | 7 | 35 |
| 6 | December 13, 2015 06:00 | December 13, 2015 10:15 | 4h 15m | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | August 25, 2015 14:30 | August 25, 2015 15:30 | 1h | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | November 6, 2015 18:45 | November 9, 2015 21:15 | 3d 2h | 3 | 76 |
| 9 | October 9, 2015 02:30 | October 9, 2015 05:00 | 2h 30m | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | December 16, 2015 16:00 | December 16, 2015 17:00 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 2 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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county