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2019 Morton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Morton County, KS went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 5,933 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 991st 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 Morton 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 | June 28, 2019 00:00 | June 28, 2019 02:00 | 2h | 1,241 | 1,560 |
| 2 | August 22, 2019 00:00 | August 22, 2019 01:30 | 1h 30m | 1,223 | 1,045 |
| 3 | August 24, 2019 03:15 | August 24, 2019 05:00 | 1h 45m | 1,223 | 2,140 |
| 4 | June 16, 2019 05:45 | June 16, 2019 07:00 | 1h 15m | 359 | 359 |
| 5 | March 13, 2019 22:00 | March 14, 2019 00:45 | 2h 45m | 279 | 559 |
| 6 | June 17, 2019 19:45 | June 17, 2019 20:30 | 45m | 82 | 30 |
| 7 | March 18, 2019 23:30 | March 19, 2019 00:30 | 1h | 19 | 16 |
| 8 | February 19, 2019 17:15 | February 19, 2019 19:00 | 1h 45m | 17 | 30 |
| 9 | April 10, 2019 19:15 | April 10, 2019 21:00 | 1h 45m | 11 | 14 |
| 10 | December 10, 2019 20:15 | December 10, 2019 21:00 | 45m | 10 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,066 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county