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2015 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,681 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 77 Kansas counties and 2234th 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 Thomas 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 11, 2015 00:15 | October 11, 2015 02:00 | 1h 45m | 411 | 564 |
| 2 | December 15, 2015 13:45 | December 15, 2015 15:30 | 1h 45m | 243 | 306 |
| 3 | November 17, 2015 01:15 | November 17, 2015 05:00 | 3h 45m | 88 | 235 |
| 4 | September 5, 2015 04:30 | September 5, 2015 05:00 | 30m | 69 | 35 |
| 5 | October 19, 2015 18:45 | October 19, 2015 19:15 | 30m | 52 | 26 |
| 6 | November 17, 2015 21:45 | November 18, 2015 00:00 | 2h 15m | 50 | 33 |
| 7 | October 22, 2015 00:45 | October 22, 2015 21:00 | 20h 15m | 38 | 91 |
| 8 | September 29, 2015 19:15 | September 29, 2015 21:00 | 1h 45m | 30 | 51 |
| 9 | September 12, 2015 20:30 | September 12, 2015 22:30 | 2h | 20 | 32 |
| 10 | September 15, 2015 21:30 | September 16, 2015 01:00 | 3h 30m | 20 | 18 |
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 Thomas 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county