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2020 Decatur County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Decatur County, KS went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 818th 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 Decatur 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 | February 23, 2020 04:15 | April 15, 2020 22:15 | 52d 18h | 509 | 2,631 |
| 2 | May 26, 2020 23:30 | July 24, 2020 08:00 | 58d 8h | 244 | 4,643 |
| 3 | August 28, 2020 02:45 | October 20, 2020 05:45 | 53d 3h | 43 | 4,361 |
| 4 | August 20, 2020 08:45 | August 28, 2020 01:15 | 7d 16h | 37 | 767 |
| 5 | October 20, 2020 06:30 | December 11, 2020 09:15 | 52d 2h | 35 | 4,710 |
| 6 | May 6, 2020 11:45 | May 26, 2020 22:15 | 20d 10h | 31 | 587 |
| 7 | December 11, 2020 10:30 | December 31, 2020 00:15 | 19d 13h | 19 | 1,275 |
| 8 | April 16, 2020 03:45 | April 29, 2020 22:30 | 13d 18h | 13 | 666 |
| 9 | July 24, 2020 09:30 | August 20, 2020 08:00 | 26d 22h | 11 | 1,640 |
| 10 | January 17, 2020 08:15 | February 8, 2020 19:00 | 22d 10h | 3 | 614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Decatur 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (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 ÷ 2,329 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county