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2020 Harper County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Harper County, KS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,152 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2622nd 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 Harper 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 | July 9, 2020 17:45 | July 9, 2020 18:45 | 1h | 1,264 | 950 |
| 2 | January 7, 2020 15:15 | January 7, 2020 18:00 | 2h 45m | 96 | 264 |
| 3 | March 12, 2020 14:30 | March 12, 2020 17:00 | 2h 30m | 81 | 203 |
| 4 | October 12, 2020 04:30 | October 12, 2020 06:30 | 2h | 62 | 83 |
| 5 | July 10, 2020 11:15 | July 10, 2020 18:45 | 7h 30m | 46 | 161 |
| 6 | November 24, 2020 23:45 | November 25, 2020 00:30 | 45m | 43 | 32 |
| 7 | June 4, 2020 14:30 | June 4, 2020 20:45 | 6h 15m | 34 | 63 |
| 8 | February 26, 2020 15:00 | February 26, 2020 15:30 | 30m | 31 | 16 |
| 9 | August 29, 2020 08:00 | August 29, 2020 09:30 | 1h 30m | 30 | 35 |
| 10 | January 21, 2020 15:30 | January 21, 2020 18:00 | 2h 30m | 19 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Harper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.22 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Anthony - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Attica - (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 ÷ 2,876 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. Harper County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harper 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/harper-county