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2020 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 4,842 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2780th 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 Thomas 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 9, 2020 19:15 | June 9, 2020 23:30 | 4h 15m | 1,108 | 680 |
| 2 | October 17, 2020 18:15 | October 17, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 954 | 477 |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 08:15 | June 3, 2020 10:15 | 2h | 345 | 509 |
| 4 | August 7, 2020 02:30 | August 7, 2020 05:45 | 3h 15m | 295 | 205 |
| 5 | May 25, 2020 08:15 | May 25, 2020 08:45 | 30m | 243 | 122 |
| 6 | April 12, 2020 13:45 | April 12, 2020 22:45 | 9h | 238 | 711 |
| 7 | August 2, 2020 19:30 | August 2, 2020 21:15 | 1h 45m | 169 | 131 |
| 8 | June 28, 2020 13:30 | June 28, 2020 19:00 | 5h 30m | 137 | 313 |
| 9 | August 15, 2020 01:45 | August 15, 2020 05:15 | 3h 30m | 98 | 91 |
| 10 | April 6, 2020 17:30 | April 6, 2020 19:30 | 2h | 82 | 113 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county