County annual report · FIPS 20135
2016 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,707 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1627th 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 Ness 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 | November 16, 2016 14:45 | November 16, 2016 20:15 | 5h 30m | 272 | 865 |
| 2 | April 8, 2016 12:15 | April 8, 2016 12:30 | 15m | 270 | 68 |
| 3 | April 16, 2016 14:15 | April 16, 2016 15:00 | 45m | 270 | 203 |
| 4 | April 16, 2016 13:00 | April 16, 2016 13:30 | 30m | 138 | 69 |
| 5 | July 6, 2016 05:00 | July 8, 2016 17:45 | 2d 12h | 18 | 262 |
| 6 | June 9, 2016 17:45 | June 9, 2016 19:30 | 1h 45m | 15 | 19 |
| 7 | July 8, 2016 19:15 | July 8, 2016 21:30 | 2h 15m | 15 | 14 |
| 8 | August 22, 2016 23:45 | August 23, 2016 03:00 | 3h 15m | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | October 28, 2016 18:00 | October 28, 2016 20:00 | 2h | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | February 3, 2016 19:00 | February 3, 2016 21:00 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/ness-county