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2021 Barber County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barber County, KS went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 653 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2825th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barber County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 5, 2021 21:15 | March 5, 2021 22:00 | 45m | 582 | 437 |
| 2 | August 23, 2021 18:15 | August 23, 2021 19:45 | 1h 30m | 26 | 33 |
| 3 | March 6, 2021 16:45 | March 6, 2021 18:45 | 2h | 25 | 50 |
| 4 | August 11, 2021 14:15 | August 11, 2021 16:15 | 2h | 22 | 33 |
| 5 | March 17, 2021 05:30 | March 17, 2021 09:45 | 4h 15m | 9 | 27 |
| 6 | February 15, 2021 18:30 | February 15, 2021 19:15 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | August 2, 2021 18:00 | August 3, 2021 14:00 | 20h | 2 | 21 |
| 8 | August 14, 2021 17:15 | August 14, 2021 18:30 | 1h 15m | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | October 12, 2021 18:45 | October 12, 2021 19:45 | 1h | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | January 11, 2021 19:30 | January 11, 2021 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 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 Barber County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | - | 3.7 hrs | - |
| CMS Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Isabel - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kiowa - (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 80% of Kansas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,429 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. Barber County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barber County, KS annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/kansas/barber-county