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2019 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2014th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 27, 2019 05:00 | May 27, 2019 23:15 | 18h 15m | 1,682 | 6,681 |
| 2 | August 1, 2019 01:30 | August 3, 2019 02:45 | 2d 1h | 1,114 | 7,523 |
| 3 | April 16, 2019 12:15 | April 16, 2019 20:15 | 8h | 584 | 4,229 |
| 4 | August 14, 2019 02:45 | August 14, 2019 12:45 | 10h | 500 | 1,575 |
| 5 | August 30, 2019 03:45 | August 30, 2019 21:00 | 17h 15m | 496 | 1,331 |
| 6 | December 28, 2019 00:45 | December 28, 2019 02:15 | 1h 30m | 449 | 484 |
| 7 | February 7, 2019 20:15 | February 7, 2019 21:00 | 45m | 448 | 225 |
| 8 | December 28, 2019 03:00 | December 28, 2019 05:30 | 2h 30m | 351 | 754 |
| 9 | February 23, 2019 19:30 | February 24, 2019 07:15 | 11h 45m | 284 | 341 |
| 10 | May 4, 2019 14:00 | May 4, 2019 15:45 | 1h 45m | 192 | 336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 74% of Kansas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/kansas/barton-county