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2020 Barber County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barber County, KS went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 324 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2896th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barber County, 2020
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 21, 2020 13:45 | October 21, 2020 15:30 | 1h 45m | 323 | 106 |
| 2 | May 16, 2020 03:15 | May 16, 2020 05:15 | 2h | 57 | 81 |
| 3 | July 29, 2020 11:15 | July 29, 2020 12:15 | 1h | 57 | 29 |
| 4 | December 3, 2020 20:45 | December 3, 2020 23:15 | 2h 30m | 7 | 10 |
| 5 | January 20, 2020 21:15 | January 20, 2020 21:45 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | March 8, 2020 23:30 | March 9, 2020 00:45 | 1h 15m | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | March 25, 2020 22:15 | March 26, 2020 00:00 | 1h 45m | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | April 22, 2020 13:45 | April 22, 2020 14:15 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 14:00 | June 10, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | June 21, 2020 12:30 | June 21, 2020 13:15 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Barber County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| CMS Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Isabel - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kiowa - (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 79% of Kansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,429 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. Barber County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barber County, KS annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/kansas/barber-county