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2016 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 445th 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 Ellis 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 8, 2016 08:45 | December 8, 2016 12:30 | 3h 45m | 9,333 | 10K |
| 2 | February 2, 2016 15:45 | February 3, 2016 20:45 | 1d 5h | 7,021 | 15K |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 10:45 | July 15, 2016 20:15 | 2d 9h | 5,959 | 62K |
| 4 | June 5, 2016 02:15 | June 7, 2016 14:15 | 2d 12h | 5,632 | 1,642 |
| 5 | December 8, 2016 21:15 | December 8, 2016 23:15 | 2h | 4,728 | 3,339 |
| 6 | January 4, 2016 13:15 | January 4, 2016 16:45 | 3h 30m | 2,492 | 6,832 |
| 7 | April 23, 2016 20:45 | April 24, 2016 04:00 | 7h 15m | 2,076 | 7,010 |
| 8 | December 19, 2016 13:30 | December 19, 2016 15:15 | 1h 45m | 2,052 | 2,634 |
| 9 | April 17, 2016 03:15 | April 17, 2016 03:45 | 30m | 2,010 | 1,005 |
| 10 | June 17, 2016 22:30 | June 18, 2016 04:15 | 5h 45m | 1,781 | 2,986 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 30 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/ellis-county