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2021 Decatur County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Decatur County, KS went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 580th 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 Decatur 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 | January 1, 2021 00:00 | April 16, 2021 08:30 | 105d 8h | 959 | 12K |
| 2 | December 8, 2021 12:15 | December 23, 2021 15:15 | 15d 3h | 635 | 5,472 |
| 3 | May 5, 2021 02:30 | May 31, 2021 04:45 | 26d 2h | 320 | 4,085 |
| 4 | October 21, 2021 05:16 | December 8, 2021 10:45 | 48d 5h | 220 | 2,307 |
| 5 | May 31, 2021 06:45 | June 24, 2021 22:15 | 24d 15h | 179 | 2,560 |
| 6 | June 25, 2021 23:30 | October 20, 2021 07:45 | 116d 8h | 156 | 4,675 |
| 7 | December 23, 2021 17:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 7d 7h | 24 | 266 |
| 8 | April 16, 2021 09:30 | May 5, 2021 01:30 | 18d 16h | 20 | 2,929 |
| 9 | June 25, 2021 00:00 | June 25, 2021 22:15 | 22h 15m | 3 | 67 |
| 10 | October 20, 2021 08:30 | October 21, 2021 02:00 | 17h 30m | 1 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 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 Decatur 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (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 ÷ 2,329 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county