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2020 Wallace County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wallace County, KS went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 5,208 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1702nd 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 Wallace 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 02:45 | June 8, 2020 06:30 | 3h 45m | 489 | 1,478 |
| 2 | May 2, 2020 13:00 | May 2, 2020 15:45 | 2h 45m | 376 | 1,034 |
| 3 | September 14, 2020 17:00 | September 14, 2020 20:00 | 3h | 200 | 310 |
| 4 | May 28, 2020 04:30 | May 28, 2020 07:45 | 3h 15m | 175 | 535 |
| 5 | January 2, 2020 17:00 | January 2, 2020 17:45 | 45m | 128 | 46 |
| 6 | February 21, 2020 16:00 | February 21, 2020 18:45 | 2h 45m | 67 | 184 |
| 7 | June 7, 2020 17:00 | June 7, 2020 18:45 | 1h 45m | 67 | 84 |
| 8 | March 15, 2020 20:15 | March 15, 2020 23:30 | 3h 15m | 63 | 67 |
| 9 | August 14, 2020 22:00 | August 15, 2020 01:00 | 3h | 59 | 80 |
| 10 | June 18, 2020 12:00 | June 18, 2020 15:15 | 3h 15m | 54 | 165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Wallace 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 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.22 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| City of Sharon Springs - (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 ÷ 1,427 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. Wallace County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wallace 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/wallace-county