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2017 Ellsworth County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ellsworth County, KS went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 803 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 2265th 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 Ellsworth 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 15:30 | January 21, 2017 23:45 | 5d 8h | 27 | 632 |
| 2 | February 22, 2017 04:30 | February 22, 2017 07:30 | 3h | 13 | 39 |
| 3 | May 19, 2017 00:15 | May 19, 2017 09:00 | 8h 45m | 12 | 97 |
| 4 | May 19, 2017 10:30 | May 19, 2017 11:00 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
| 5 | September 18, 2017 15:00 | September 18, 2017 19:30 | 4h 30m | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | May 11, 2017 15:00 | May 11, 2017 16:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | September 20, 2017 20:00 | September 20, 2017 21:45 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | March 7, 2017 18:45 | March 7, 2017 19:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | May 19, 2017 17:30 | May 19, 2017 19:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 09:45 | August 19, 2017 11:30 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 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 Ellsworth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.23 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2017 | 23.4 hrs | 2.41 | 3.1 hrs | 1.54 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holyrood - (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 ÷ 1,473 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. Ellsworth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellsworth 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/ellsworth-county