County annual report · FIPS 20203
2020 Wichita County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wichita County, KS went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1089th 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 Wichita 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 | July 18, 2020 23:30 | July 19, 2020 04:45 | 5h 15m | 1,607 | 8,005 |
| 2 | August 9, 2020 00:15 | August 9, 2020 01:45 | 1h 30m | 446 | 446 |
| 3 | April 9, 2020 18:45 | April 13, 2020 17:00 | 3d 22h | 442 | 646 |
| 4 | March 10, 2020 14:15 | March 17, 2020 18:15 | 7d 4h | 441 | 411 |
| 5 | January 22, 2020 15:45 | January 22, 2020 17:00 | 1h 15m | 318 | 398 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 09:30 | June 12, 2020 16:00 | 6h 30m | 180 | 570 |
| 7 | February 28, 2020 18:45 | February 28, 2020 22:30 | 3h 45m | 161 | 133 |
| 8 | June 27, 2020 05:15 | June 29, 2020 15:00 | 2d 9h | 127 | 387 |
| 9 | October 11, 2020 23:15 | October 12, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 122 | 153 |
| 10 | August 29, 2020 04:30 | August 29, 2020 15:30 | 11h | 109 | 164 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Wichita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.22 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
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 ÷ 2,012 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. Wichita County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county