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2020 Sherman County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sherman County, KS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 6,957 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2575th 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 Sherman 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 8, 2020 00:15 | June 8, 2020 06:30 | 6h 15m | 702 | 697 |
| 2 | May 28, 2020 04:30 | May 28, 2020 08:00 | 3h 30m | 506 | 1,608 |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 08:00 | June 3, 2020 11:45 | 3h 45m | 334 | 575 |
| 4 | April 12, 2020 13:45 | April 12, 2020 22:30 | 8h 45m | 295 | 813 |
| 5 | April 11, 2020 02:30 | April 11, 2020 08:15 | 5h 45m | 194 | 873 |
| 6 | April 21, 2020 22:15 | April 21, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 193 | 241 |
| 7 | November 24, 2020 10:30 | November 24, 2020 14:00 | 3h 30m | 193 | 279 |
| 8 | June 9, 2020 16:45 | June 9, 2020 18:15 | 1h 30m | 167 | 167 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 19:00 | June 10, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 167 | 84 |
| 10 | April 14, 2020 14:45 | April 14, 2020 16:15 | 1h 30m | 149 | 60 |
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 Sherman 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 Goodland - (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 ÷ 5,649 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. Sherman County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sherman 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/sherman-county