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2019 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 1444th 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 Ellis 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 | August 14, 2019 00:45 | August 16, 2019 15:15 | 2d 14h | 6,672 | 48K |
| 2 | August 17, 2019 07:00 | August 26, 2019 18:30 | 9d 11h | 2,344 | 5,976 |
| 3 | July 19, 2019 01:00 | July 19, 2019 03:00 | 2h | 733 | 564 |
| 4 | September 9, 2019 11:30 | September 9, 2019 12:45 | 1h 15m | 730 | 913 |
| 5 | August 30, 2019 02:45 | August 30, 2019 20:45 | 18h | 518 | 1,226 |
| 6 | October 11, 2019 16:30 | October 11, 2019 20:15 | 3h 45m | 410 | 358 |
| 7 | June 9, 2019 06:45 | June 9, 2019 12:30 | 5h 45m | 274 | 354 |
| 8 | January 8, 2019 13:45 | January 8, 2019 19:00 | 5h 15m | 224 | 498 |
| 9 | May 18, 2019 15:30 | May 18, 2019 18:30 | 3h | 196 | 127 |
| 10 | December 7, 2019 19:30 | December 8, 2019 00:30 | 5h | 192 | 421 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 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 Ellis 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 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county