County annual report · FIPS 20179
2020 Sheridan County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sheridan County, KS went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 6,628 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1599th 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 Sheridan 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 | April 14, 2020 21:45 | April 15, 2020 00:30 | 2h 45m | 1,288 | 763 |
| 2 | August 3, 2020 16:15 | August 3, 2020 17:00 | 45m | 506 | 380 |
| 3 | July 29, 2020 22:30 | July 30, 2020 00:15 | 1h 45m | 238 | 294 |
| 4 | July 19, 2020 00:15 | July 21, 2020 13:30 | 2d 13h | 182 | 1,286 |
| 5 | March 3, 2020 15:45 | March 4, 2020 18:00 | 1d 2h | 155 | 346 |
| 6 | January 22, 2020 17:15 | February 8, 2020 19:00 | 17d 1h | 136 | 1,075 |
| 7 | November 12, 2020 23:15 | November 13, 2020 00:15 | 1h | 84 | 84 |
| 8 | November 18, 2020 16:15 | November 18, 2020 18:00 | 1h 45m | 84 | 147 |
| 9 | June 19, 2020 23:00 | June 20, 2020 00:00 | 1h | 59 | 44 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 16:30 | June 29, 2020 19:00 | 2h 30m | 49 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Sheridan 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 1,648 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. Sheridan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sheridan 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/sheridan-county