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2016 Wallace County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wallace County, KS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,926 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1606th 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 Wallace 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 17, 2016 12:45 | June 17, 2016 13:15 | 30m | 190 | 95 |
| 2 | July 28, 2016 05:45 | July 28, 2016 18:00 | 12h 15m | 127 | 535 |
| 3 | December 17, 2016 16:45 | December 17, 2016 18:30 | 1h 45m | 102 | 110 |
| 4 | March 23, 2016 20:30 | March 24, 2016 01:45 | 5h 15m | 88 | 158 |
| 5 | February 15, 2016 12:30 | February 15, 2016 13:30 | 1h | 75 | 75 |
| 6 | June 14, 2016 08:00 | June 14, 2016 11:15 | 3h 15m | 72 | 234 |
| 7 | October 12, 2016 01:15 | October 12, 2016 04:15 | 3h | 63 | 142 |
| 8 | September 23, 2016 13:30 | September 23, 2016 16:30 | 3h | 54 | 162 |
| 9 | July 9, 2016 16:45 | July 9, 2016 19:45 | 3h | 21 | 52 |
| 10 | January 28, 2016 21:15 | January 29, 2016 02:45 | 5h 30m | 16 | 83 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 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 Wallace 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 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 |
| City of Sharon Springs - (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 ÷ 1,427 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. Wallace County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wallace 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/wallace-county