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2020 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 1,012 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2741st 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 Ness 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 16, 2020 17:00 | July 16, 2020 19:15 | 2h 15m | 156 | 170 |
| 2 | May 1, 2020 03:45 | May 1, 2020 05:15 | 1h 30m | 131 | 195 |
| 3 | November 6, 2020 15:00 | November 6, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 24 | 90 |
| 4 | March 31, 2020 06:30 | March 31, 2020 07:45 | 1h 15m | 20 | 16 |
| 5 | April 2, 2020 16:45 | April 2, 2020 17:00 | 15m | 20 | 5 |
| 6 | July 11, 2020 04:45 | July 11, 2020 06:30 | 1h 45m | 19 | 33 |
| 7 | July 19, 2020 05:15 | July 19, 2020 07:30 | 2h 15m | 19 | 43 |
| 8 | August 3, 2020 23:15 | August 4, 2020 00:15 | 1h | 19 | 19 |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 03:30 | May 12, 2020 04:45 | 1h 15m | 16 | 9 |
| 10 | September 29, 2020 13:45 | September 29, 2020 17:30 | 3h 45m | 16 | 60 |
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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county