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2019 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,742 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2361st 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 Ness 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 31, 2019 17:45 | May 31, 2019 18:15 | 30m | 147 | 69 |
| 2 | May 27, 2019 04:45 | May 27, 2019 17:00 | 12h 15m | 132 | 1,457 |
| 3 | April 26, 2019 16:00 | April 26, 2019 16:15 | 15m | 54 | 14 |
| 4 | December 4, 2019 21:00 | December 4, 2019 21:30 | 30m | 36 | 18 |
| 5 | November 12, 2019 17:30 | November 12, 2019 18:00 | 30m | 24 | 12 |
| 6 | March 18, 2019 16:45 | March 18, 2019 17:30 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | May 17, 2019 19:30 | May 17, 2019 19:45 | 15m | 13 | 3 |
| 8 | October 29, 2019 16:00 | October 29, 2019 19:15 | 3h 15m | 13 | 29 |
| 9 | April 29, 2019 03:00 | April 29, 2019 03:15 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 10 | October 21, 2019 10:45 | October 21, 2019 15:15 | 4h 30m | 4 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 2 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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county