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2018 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1914th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 25, 2018 11:30 | November 26, 2018 03:45 | 16h 15m | 820 | 7,993 |
| 2 | November 21, 2018 15:00 | November 21, 2018 15:45 | 45m | 662 | 166 |
| 3 | July 29, 2018 07:00 | July 29, 2018 21:15 | 14h 15m | 533 | 1,301 |
| 4 | November 26, 2018 14:30 | November 28, 2018 21:15 | 2d 6h | 480 | 3,295 |
| 5 | July 5, 2018 02:00 | July 5, 2018 04:15 | 2h 15m | 426 | 877 |
| 6 | March 6, 2018 15:30 | March 6, 2018 22:00 | 6h 30m | 412 | 1,076 |
| 7 | April 18, 2018 03:15 | April 18, 2018 08:45 | 5h 30m | 379 | 1,151 |
| 8 | May 1, 2018 22:15 | May 2, 2018 01:45 | 3h 30m | 367 | 1,285 |
| 9 | April 18, 2018 16:30 | April 18, 2018 18:45 | 2h 15m | 365 | 639 |
| 10 | October 6, 2018 05:30 | October 6, 2018 08:15 | 2h 45m | 353 | 697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 28 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 78 min | 1.29 | 78 min | 1.29 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 71% of Kansas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/kansas/barton-county