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2017 Sherman County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sherman County, KS went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 1206th 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 Sherman 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 17:15 | May 2, 2017 18:15 | 2d 1h | 1,175 | 15K |
| 2 | November 30, 2017 22:45 | December 1, 2017 00:30 | 1h 45m | 192 | 97 |
| 3 | August 11, 2017 17:00 | August 11, 2017 19:00 | 2h | 191 | 149 |
| 4 | July 29, 2017 23:15 | July 30, 2017 01:15 | 2h | 190 | 380 |
| 5 | August 6, 2017 04:00 | August 6, 2017 06:45 | 2h 45m | 133 | 333 |
| 6 | January 7, 2017 03:45 | January 7, 2017 07:00 | 3h 15m | 132 | 429 |
| 7 | February 3, 2017 06:00 | February 3, 2017 10:00 | 4h | 132 | 528 |
| 8 | September 25, 2017 20:00 | September 29, 2017 21:00 | 4d 1h | 132 | 469 |
| 9 | January 16, 2017 19:00 | January 16, 2017 22:00 | 3h | 70 | 97 |
| 10 | September 23, 2017 23:30 | September 24, 2017 06:00 | 6h 30m | 57 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Sherman 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Goodland - (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 ÷ 5,649 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. Sherman County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sherman 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/sherman-county