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2017 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 459th 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 Thomas 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 10:15 | May 6, 2017 01:00 | 5d 14h | 1,575 | 79K |
| 2 | July 10, 2017 03:30 | July 10, 2017 05:15 | 1h 45m | 668 | 1,147 |
| 3 | February 3, 2017 06:00 | February 3, 2017 10:00 | 4h | 408 | 1,632 |
| 4 | January 7, 2017 03:45 | January 7, 2017 07:15 | 3h 30m | 406 | 1,320 |
| 5 | May 26, 2017 20:45 | May 27, 2017 18:45 | 22h | 282 | 722 |
| 6 | March 24, 2017 03:00 | March 24, 2017 03:45 | 45m | 183 | 46 |
| 7 | May 15, 2017 23:15 | May 16, 2017 03:45 | 4h 30m | 140 | 369 |
| 8 | May 11, 2017 12:30 | May 11, 2017 16:45 | 4h 15m | 133 | 106 |
| 9 | January 16, 2017 16:15 | January 17, 2017 01:00 | 8h 45m | 119 | 246 |
| 10 | May 10, 2017 05:45 | May 10, 2017 10:15 | 4h 30m | 111 | 199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 11 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county