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2020 Norton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Norton County, KS went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1533rd 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 Norton 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 28, 2020 05:00 | June 29, 2020 17:30 | 1d 12h | 690 | 312 |
| 2 | July 3, 2020 00:45 | July 7, 2020 15:00 | 4d 14h | 351 | 2,261 |
| 3 | March 24, 2020 10:00 | March 24, 2020 12:00 | 2h | 327 | 557 |
| 4 | January 9, 2020 23:00 | January 10, 2020 01:30 | 2h 30m | 302 | 698 |
| 5 | July 16, 2020 13:15 | July 17, 2020 19:30 | 1d 6h | 301 | 8,788 |
| 6 | August 11, 2020 13:00 | August 11, 2020 13:15 | 15m | 299 | 75 |
| 7 | May 12, 2020 18:15 | May 12, 2020 22:00 | 3h 45m | 278 | 422 |
| 8 | April 12, 2020 10:30 | April 15, 2020 16:45 | 3d 6h | 258 | 891 |
| 9 | September 12, 2020 07:30 | September 12, 2020 09:15 | 1h 45m | 129 | 225 |
| 10 | July 19, 2020 01:15 | July 23, 2020 20:00 | 4d 18h | 107 | 512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Norton 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 Norton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,238 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. Norton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norton 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/norton-county