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2016 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1629th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2016
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 6, 2016 10:15 | October 6, 2016 18:15 | 8h | 1,331 | 4,999 |
| 2 | April 14, 2016 15:00 | April 14, 2016 18:15 | 3h 15m | 1,152 | 3,038 |
| 3 | May 25, 2016 02:00 | May 25, 2016 09:15 | 7h 15m | 516 | 1,031 |
| 4 | August 4, 2016 11:15 | August 4, 2016 14:45 | 3h 30m | 360 | 1,260 |
| 5 | August 29, 2016 21:45 | August 30, 2016 00:15 | 2h 30m | 360 | 900 |
| 6 | May 27, 2016 01:15 | May 27, 2016 05:30 | 4h 15m | 242 | 833 |
| 7 | July 6, 2016 05:30 | July 7, 2016 15:30 | 1d 10h | 234 | 959 |
| 8 | April 24, 2016 12:15 | April 24, 2016 15:30 | 3h 15m | 220 | 236 |
| 9 | June 24, 2016 18:30 | June 24, 2016 20:30 | 2h | 220 | 351 |
| 10 | February 13, 2016 15:45 | February 13, 2016 16:30 | 45m | 182 | 92 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 6.3 hrs | 2.92 | 3.0 hrs | 1.75 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/kansas/barton-county