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2017 Wallace County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wallace County, KS went without power for an average of 17.5 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 316th 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 Wallace 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 15:00 | May 3, 2017 01:00 | 2d 10h | 1,345 | 22K |
| 2 | April 29, 2017 15:00 | April 29, 2017 23:30 | 8h 30m | 207 | 1,651 |
| 3 | July 12, 2017 22:30 | July 13, 2017 04:30 | 6h | 161 | 815 |
| 4 | April 11, 2017 16:00 | April 11, 2017 16:30 | 30m | 75 | 19 |
| 5 | July 26, 2017 19:00 | July 26, 2017 21:15 | 2h 15m | 56 | 126 |
| 6 | August 21, 2017 21:15 | August 21, 2017 23:00 | 1h 45m | 54 | 79 |
| 7 | July 7, 2017 23:15 | July 8, 2017 01:15 | 2h | 52 | 91 |
| 8 | June 29, 2017 08:00 | June 29, 2017 10:30 | 2h 30m | 42 | 105 |
| 9 | July 12, 2017 01:15 | July 12, 2017 03:00 | 1h 45m | 33 | 58 |
| 10 | May 9, 2017 21:00 | May 9, 2017 21:30 | 30m | 28 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Wallace 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 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 2.74 | 59 min | 1.17 |
| City of Sharon Springs - (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 ÷ 1,427 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. Wallace County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wallace 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/wallace-county