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2018 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1907th 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 Thomas 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 | January 22, 2018 02:15 | January 23, 2018 02:15 | 1d | 697 | 6,669 |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 16:00 | March 2, 2018 17:45 | 1h 45m | 456 | 116 |
| 3 | June 9, 2018 03:30 | June 9, 2018 10:00 | 6h 30m | 272 | 459 |
| 4 | August 6, 2018 15:30 | August 6, 2018 16:45 | 1h 15m | 272 | 205 |
| 5 | November 25, 2018 08:45 | November 25, 2018 12:45 | 4h | 234 | 878 |
| 6 | June 1, 2018 21:00 | June 1, 2018 22:15 | 1h 15m | 162 | 203 |
| 7 | September 6, 2018 03:15 | September 6, 2018 04:00 | 45m | 136 | 102 |
| 8 | September 6, 2018 19:15 | September 6, 2018 19:45 | 30m | 105 | 53 |
| 9 | December 13, 2018 23:00 | December 13, 2018 23:45 | 45m | 102 | 77 |
| 10 | June 14, 2018 09:45 | June 14, 2018 12:30 | 2h 45m | 100 | 275 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county