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2020 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2762nd 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 Ellis 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 | May 31, 2020 08:30 | May 31, 2020 10:15 | 1h 45m | 4,161 | 4,539 |
| 2 | February 24, 2020 07:30 | February 24, 2020 11:00 | 3h 30m | 1,496 | 1,691 |
| 3 | May 12, 2020 08:15 | May 12, 2020 14:45 | 6h 30m | 1,155 | 526 |
| 4 | July 15, 2020 08:15 | July 15, 2020 14:15 | 6h | 913 | 1,114 |
| 5 | October 13, 2020 13:00 | October 13, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 477 | 1,222 |
| 6 | May 21, 2020 15:00 | May 21, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 470 | 238 |
| 7 | October 6, 2020 13:30 | October 6, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 388 | 143 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 01:15 | October 12, 2020 06:00 | 4h 45m | 281 | 1,322 |
| 9 | November 25, 2020 01:00 | November 25, 2020 02:45 | 1h 45m | 187 | 199 |
| 10 | November 14, 2020 12:15 | November 14, 2020 15:30 | 3h 15m | 185 | 177 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ellis 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 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn 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 79% of Kansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county