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2017 Sheridan County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sheridan County, KS went without power for an average of 42.5 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 101st 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 Sheridan 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 | April 30, 2017 06:00 | May 10, 2017 16:30 | 10d 10h | 1,826 | 63K |
| 2 | May 27, 2017 07:30 | May 27, 2017 09:30 | 2h | 1,253 | 2,506 |
| 3 | March 15, 2017 19:15 | March 15, 2017 19:45 | 30m | 1,155 | 577 |
| 4 | August 10, 2017 19:30 | August 11, 2017 01:45 | 6h 15m | 491 | 921 |
| 5 | May 27, 2017 14:30 | May 27, 2017 16:15 | 1h 45m | 376 | 99 |
| 6 | October 20, 2017 05:00 | October 20, 2017 08:30 | 3h 30m | 376 | 1,316 |
| 7 | February 13, 2017 21:00 | February 13, 2017 23:45 | 2h 45m | 280 | 147 |
| 8 | May 11, 2017 08:15 | May 11, 2017 11:30 | 3h 15m | 95 | 121 |
| 9 | August 11, 2017 18:15 | August 11, 2017 20:00 | 1h 45m | 95 | 166 |
| 10 | March 24, 2017 20:30 | March 25, 2017 00:15 | 3h 45m | 65 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Sheridan 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 1,648 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. Sheridan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sheridan 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/sheridan-county