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2016 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1567th 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 Thomas 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 | May 27, 2016 00:45 | May 27, 2016 19:45 | 19h | 869 | 3,351 |
| 2 | October 12, 2016 08:30 | October 12, 2016 13:00 | 4h 30m | 513 | 2,302 |
| 3 | December 25, 2016 20:45 | December 26, 2016 01:15 | 4h 30m | 247 | 558 |
| 4 | February 1, 2016 14:30 | February 1, 2016 17:45 | 3h 15m | 243 | 249 |
| 5 | February 13, 2016 15:30 | February 13, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 235 | 59 |
| 6 | October 3, 2016 21:30 | October 3, 2016 23:45 | 2h 15m | 126 | 179 |
| 7 | September 16, 2016 00:30 | September 16, 2016 21:45 | 21h 15m | 122 | 147 |
| 8 | May 27, 2016 23:00 | May 31, 2016 22:15 | 3d 23h | 99 | 1,446 |
| 9 | December 26, 2016 03:00 | December 26, 2016 03:45 | 45m | 69 | 52 |
| 10 | April 27, 2016 18:15 | April 27, 2016 19:45 | 1h 30m | 66 | 99 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county