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2018 Morton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Morton County, KS went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 2,976 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1578th 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 Morton 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 | December 27, 2018 07:45 | December 28, 2018 22:45 | 1d 15h | 326 | 2,687 |
| 2 | June 8, 2018 16:00 | June 8, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 21 | 16 |
| 3 | September 19, 2018 15:15 | September 19, 2018 16:15 | 1h | 20 | 20 |
| 4 | January 29, 2018 19:15 | January 29, 2018 20:45 | 1h 30m | 17 | 26 |
| 5 | January 9, 2018 15:45 | January 9, 2018 18:00 | 2h 15m | 10 | 20 |
| 6 | July 26, 2018 04:45 | July 26, 2018 06:30 | 1h 45m | 10 | 18 |
| 7 | July 27, 2018 13:30 | July 27, 2018 14:15 | 45m | 10 | 8 |
| 8 | March 7, 2018 20:00 | March 7, 2018 22:15 | 2h 15m | 9 | 20 |
| 9 | March 8, 2018 16:45 | March 8, 2018 18:15 | 1h 30m | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | August 6, 2018 20:15 | August 6, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 1 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,066 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county