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2017 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 611th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 16, 2017 03:15 | January 22, 2017 18:30 | 6d 15h | 2,613 | 104K |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 01:15 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 16h 15m | 1,619 | 7,880 |
| 3 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 21, 2017 00:00 | 3d 5h | 451 | 3,290 |
| 4 | September 18, 2017 15:00 | September 18, 2017 20:00 | 5h | 447 | 419 |
| 5 | October 6, 2017 21:45 | October 7, 2017 22:30 | 1d | 407 | 3,148 |
| 6 | December 17, 2017 07:45 | December 17, 2017 11:15 | 3h 30m | 323 | 1,005 |
| 7 | April 29, 2017 21:45 | April 30, 2017 01:00 | 3h 15m | 215 | 420 |
| 8 | June 21, 2017 12:15 | June 21, 2017 13:00 | 45m | 201 | 51 |
| 9 | July 16, 2017 22:45 | July 17, 2017 00:15 | 1h 30m | 193 | 290 |
| 10 | June 15, 2017 21:30 | June 16, 2017 19:15 | 21h 45m | 192 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 23.4 hrs | 2.41 | 3.1 hrs | 1.54 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 2.74 | 59 min | 1.17 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/kansas/barton-county