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2021 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 765th 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 Barton 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 | December 15, 2021 19:15 | December 28, 2021 20:30 | 13d 1h | 5,364 | 129K |
| 2 | August 29, 2021 13:45 | August 29, 2021 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,561 | 1,388 |
| 3 | September 18, 2021 14:15 | September 18, 2021 19:30 | 5h 15m | 1,135 | 4,712 |
| 4 | February 16, 2021 14:30 | February 16, 2021 16:15 | 1h 45m | 1,027 | 1,540 |
| 5 | February 14, 2021 10:30 | February 15, 2021 10:30 | 1d | 659 | 1,014 |
| 6 | June 24, 2021 00:00 | June 24, 2021 00:30 | 30m | 640 | 320 |
| 7 | June 17, 2021 00:45 | June 17, 2021 02:45 | 2h | 633 | 318 |
| 8 | June 11, 2021 01:00 | June 11, 2021 01:30 | 30m | 583 | 292 |
| 9 | September 17, 2021 16:00 | September 17, 2021 17:15 | 1h 15m | 445 | 428 |
| 10 | October 18, 2021 20:00 | October 19, 2021 18:15 | 22h 15m | 444 | 872 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Barton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 42.3 hrs | 2.40 | 2.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.5 hrs | 0.97 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton 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/barton-county