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2017 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 80 Kansas counties and 2068th 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 Ellis 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 | June 28, 2017 11:00 | June 28, 2017 13:00 | 2h | 1,492 | 1,121 |
| 2 | June 4, 2017 13:00 | June 4, 2017 16:15 | 3h 15m | 1,489 | 955 |
| 3 | June 15, 2017 19:45 | June 16, 2017 01:30 | 5h 45m | 838 | 513 |
| 4 | January 16, 2017 11:30 | January 17, 2017 20:45 | 1d 9h | 615 | 2,864 |
| 5 | March 27, 2017 22:00 | March 27, 2017 23:15 | 1h 15m | 514 | 638 |
| 6 | February 7, 2017 06:00 | February 7, 2017 06:15 | 15m | 495 | 124 |
| 7 | August 18, 2017 15:15 | August 18, 2017 15:45 | 30m | 447 | 116 |
| 8 | August 7, 2017 12:45 | August 7, 2017 13:45 | 1h | 431 | 324 |
| 9 | December 3, 2017 17:30 | December 3, 2017 20:00 | 2h 30m | 401 | 625 |
| 10 | December 29, 2017 20:00 | December 29, 2017 20:45 | 45m | 397 | 199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 23 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 Ellis 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 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county