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2019 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2123rd 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 Thomas 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 | October 20, 2019 18:30 | October 20, 2019 20:00 | 1h 30m | 971 | 1,457 |
| 2 | December 17, 2019 19:45 | December 17, 2019 20:45 | 1h | 878 | 528 |
| 3 | March 24, 2019 18:30 | March 24, 2019 20:00 | 1h 30m | 522 | 658 |
| 4 | August 30, 2019 06:30 | August 30, 2019 08:30 | 2h | 517 | 738 |
| 5 | December 16, 2019 03:45 | December 16, 2019 06:00 | 2h 15m | 452 | 771 |
| 6 | March 12, 2019 15:00 | March 12, 2019 19:30 | 4h 30m | 348 | 99 |
| 7 | August 8, 2019 06:30 | August 8, 2019 17:00 | 10h 30m | 258 | 691 |
| 8 | November 30, 2019 20:30 | December 1, 2019 01:15 | 4h 45m | 243 | 368 |
| 9 | November 30, 2019 19:00 | November 30, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 242 | 61 |
| 10 | March 14, 2019 14:00 | March 15, 2019 00:00 | 10h | 238 | 169 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 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 Thomas 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county