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2018 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 1,836 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2131st 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 Ness 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 | April 18, 2018 05:00 | April 18, 2018 09:15 | 4h 15m | 389 | 346 |
| 2 | June 19, 2018 04:15 | June 19, 2018 04:30 | 15m | 258 | 65 |
| 3 | November 25, 2018 11:15 | November 26, 2018 21:00 | 1d 9h | 132 | 577 |
| 4 | January 11, 2018 06:00 | January 11, 2018 10:30 | 4h 30m | 131 | 590 |
| 5 | March 8, 2018 14:00 | March 8, 2018 16:30 | 2h 30m | 46 | 79 |
| 6 | July 28, 2018 01:00 | July 28, 2018 01:15 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 7 | May 29, 2018 17:45 | May 29, 2018 21:00 | 3h 15m | 3 | 10 |
| 8 | July 26, 2018 16:15 | July 26, 2018 17:30 | 1h 15m | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | July 16, 2018 05:00 | July 16, 2018 17:30 | 12h 30m | 2 | 15 |
| 10 | September 21, 2018 17:45 | September 21, 2018 19:45 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county