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2016 Sheridan County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sheridan County, KS went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 5,716 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 887th 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 Sheridan 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 | June 2, 2016 00:15 | June 2, 2016 01:00 | 45m | 1,836 | 459 |
| 2 | June 3, 2016 18:15 | June 3, 2016 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,174 | 2,351 |
| 3 | September 15, 2016 14:00 | September 15, 2016 16:45 | 2h 45m | 496 | 250 |
| 4 | July 29, 2016 17:00 | July 29, 2016 18:45 | 1h 45m | 493 | 137 |
| 5 | April 6, 2016 19:45 | April 6, 2016 20:15 | 30m | 382 | 165 |
| 6 | August 19, 2016 05:00 | August 19, 2016 08:45 | 3h 45m | 376 | 1,410 |
| 7 | May 27, 2016 03:30 | May 27, 2016 07:15 | 3h 45m | 134 | 107 |
| 8 | July 23, 2016 22:00 | July 23, 2016 23:15 | 1h 15m | 84 | 85 |
| 9 | March 23, 2016 23:45 | March 24, 2016 02:00 | 2h 15m | 47 | 106 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 13:00 | June 22, 2016 15:45 | 2h 45m | 38 | 50 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Sheridan 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 1,648 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. Sheridan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sheridan 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/sheridan-county