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2020 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1362nd 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 Barton 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 | June 21, 2020 20:30 | June 24, 2020 02:30 | 2d 6h | 10,942 | 52K |
| 2 | July 27, 2020 03:00 | July 27, 2020 06:00 | 3h | 1,562 | 1,957 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 21:00 | July 23, 2020 19:15 | 1d 22h | 1,219 | 436 |
| 4 | June 25, 2020 17:45 | June 26, 2020 20:30 | 1d 2h | 1,184 | 6,256 |
| 5 | June 5, 2020 15:45 | June 5, 2020 21:15 | 5h 30m | 1,005 | 685 |
| 6 | May 4, 2020 20:15 | May 5, 2020 01:00 | 4h 45m | 938 | 2,112 |
| 7 | October 11, 2020 07:30 | October 11, 2020 09:30 | 2h | 584 | 1,168 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 13:45 | May 22, 2020 21:15 | 7h 30m | 446 | 123 |
| 9 | April 7, 2020 18:00 | April 9, 2020 21:45 | 2d 3h | 299 | 179 |
| 10 | May 22, 2020 10:00 | May 22, 2020 12:00 | 2h | 194 | 303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Barton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.61 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.22 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton 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/barton-county