County annual report · FIPS 20199
2018 Wallace County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wallace County, KS went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 700th 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 Wallace 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 27, 2018 01:00 | July 28, 2018 01:30 | 1d | 361 | 2,771 |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 00:30 | May 15, 2018 05:00 | 4h 30m | 313 | 160 |
| 3 | August 4, 2018 18:00 | August 4, 2018 20:15 | 2h 15m | 313 | 83 |
| 4 | January 22, 2018 03:15 | January 22, 2018 23:00 | 19h 45m | 254 | 2,360 |
| 5 | April 17, 2018 23:15 | April 18, 2018 03:30 | 4h 15m | 229 | 233 |
| 6 | June 14, 2018 05:15 | June 14, 2018 09:00 | 3h 45m | 194 | 682 |
| 7 | March 13, 2018 15:00 | March 13, 2018 16:30 | 1h 30m | 167 | 251 |
| 8 | August 4, 2018 00:00 | August 4, 2018 17:00 | 17h | 145 | 1,381 |
| 9 | June 24, 2018 00:45 | June 26, 2018 19:15 | 2d 18h | 96 | 1,825 |
| 10 | July 5, 2018 06:00 | July 5, 2018 08:30 | 2h 30m | 96 | 168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 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 Wallace 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 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 78 min | 1.29 | 78 min | 1.29 |
| City of Sharon Springs - (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 ÷ 1,427 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. Wallace County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wallace 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/wallace-county