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2016 Decatur County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Decatur County, KS went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 5,434 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1220th 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 Decatur 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 | December 25, 2016 22:15 | December 25, 2016 23:15 | 1h | 668 | 668 |
| 2 | October 25, 2016 14:15 | October 25, 2016 15:00 | 45m | 666 | 360 |
| 3 | October 27, 2016 12:00 | October 27, 2016 12:15 | 15m | 666 | 167 |
| 4 | February 19, 2016 19:45 | February 19, 2016 21:45 | 2h | 664 | 1,328 |
| 5 | September 16, 2016 13:45 | September 16, 2016 14:30 | 45m | 663 | 497 |
| 6 | June 2, 2016 00:30 | June 2, 2016 01:00 | 30m | 662 | 166 |
| 7 | June 3, 2016 18:30 | June 3, 2016 21:00 | 2h 30m | 662 | 1,655 |
| 8 | June 8, 2016 16:45 | June 8, 2016 17:00 | 15m | 661 | 165 |
| 9 | August 7, 2016 08:30 | August 7, 2016 12:00 | 3h 30m | 87 | 262 |
| 10 | May 27, 2016 12:00 | May 27, 2016 17:30 | 5h 30m | 9 | 41 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Decatur 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (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 ÷ 2,329 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county