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2018 Norton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Norton County, KS went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 430 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2662nd 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 Norton 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 | July 5, 2018 09:45 | July 5, 2018 13:45 | 4h | 241 | 89 |
| 2 | November 25, 2018 13:15 | November 25, 2018 14:30 | 1h 15m | 238 | 179 |
| 3 | July 24, 2018 05:00 | July 24, 2018 11:15 | 6h 15m | 22 | 132 |
| 4 | January 10, 2018 18:30 | January 10, 2018 18:45 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | September 14, 2018 15:00 | September 14, 2018 16:30 | 1h 30m | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | October 14, 2018 13:15 | October 14, 2018 14:45 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | April 14, 2018 14:00 | April 14, 2018 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | April 19, 2018 18:45 | April 19, 2018 20:30 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | May 22, 2018 00:30 | May 22, 2018 01:45 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | June 16, 2018 20:00 | June 16, 2018 20:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 2 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 Norton 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Norton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,238 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. Norton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norton 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/norton-county