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2017 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 595th 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 Ness 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 08:30 | January 25, 2017 20:30 | 9d 12h | 138 | 11K |
| 2 | June 23, 2017 18:15 | June 23, 2017 19:45 | 1h 30m | 52 | 37 |
| 3 | September 25, 2017 10:30 | September 25, 2017 12:00 | 1h 30m | 19 | 29 |
| 4 | May 16, 2017 05:15 | May 16, 2017 11:00 | 5h 45m | 12 | 52 |
| 5 | June 23, 2017 03:30 | June 23, 2017 07:00 | 3h 30m | 8 | 24 |
| 6 | February 1, 2017 17:00 | February 1, 2017 20:15 | 3h 15m | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | May 16, 2017 14:30 | May 16, 2017 17:45 | 3h 15m | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | January 9, 2017 10:30 | January 9, 2017 12:45 | 2h 15m | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | May 16, 2017 22:30 | May 16, 2017 22:45 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | May 17, 2017 03:15 | May 17, 2017 04:00 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 1 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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county