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2018 Sherman County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sherman County, KS went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 9,239 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2025th 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 Sherman 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 | June 14, 2018 05:00 | June 14, 2018 12:30 | 7h 30m | 391 | 2,500 |
| 2 | July 26, 2018 23:30 | July 28, 2018 01:30 | 1d 2h | 275 | 847 |
| 3 | March 10, 2018 04:00 | March 10, 2018 07:15 | 3h 15m | 236 | 408 |
| 4 | March 3, 2018 16:30 | March 3, 2018 18:45 | 2h 15m | 194 | 388 |
| 5 | February 1, 2018 17:30 | February 1, 2018 19:30 | 2h | 191 | 382 |
| 6 | January 22, 2018 01:00 | January 22, 2018 18:45 | 17h 45m | 178 | 1,826 |
| 7 | January 22, 2018 21:45 | January 23, 2018 14:30 | 16h 45m | 167 | 389 |
| 8 | July 26, 2018 14:00 | July 26, 2018 19:00 | 5h | 166 | 106 |
| 9 | March 20, 2018 12:30 | March 20, 2018 14:45 | 2h 15m | 159 | 172 |
| 10 | June 23, 2018 21:45 | June 23, 2018 23:45 | 2h | 153 | 82 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 11 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 Sherman 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 Goodland - (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 ÷ 5,649 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. Sherman County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sherman 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/sherman-county