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2018 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1030th 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 Ellis 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 10:00 | November 27, 2018 22:00 | 2d 12h | 8,645 | 66K |
| 2 | June 28, 2018 04:00 | June 28, 2018 05:15 | 1h 15m | 4,662 | 2,137 |
| 3 | June 20, 2018 00:30 | June 20, 2018 08:00 | 7h 30m | 2,025 | 1,880 |
| 4 | January 22, 2018 12:15 | January 23, 2018 00:30 | 12h 15m | 1,776 | 5,641 |
| 5 | June 24, 2018 06:15 | June 25, 2018 02:00 | 19h 45m | 1,492 | 1,685 |
| 6 | November 22, 2018 20:00 | November 22, 2018 21:00 | 1h | 1,409 | 1,057 |
| 7 | March 5, 2018 20:00 | March 5, 2018 20:45 | 45m | 1,287 | 652 |
| 8 | November 3, 2018 22:00 | November 3, 2018 22:45 | 45m | 723 | 538 |
| 9 | March 19, 2018 09:00 | March 19, 2018 10:15 | 1h 15m | 621 | 621 |
| 10 | May 20, 2018 19:15 | May 20, 2018 19:45 | 30m | 568 | 284 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Ellis 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 |
| 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 71% of Kansas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county