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2021 Ellsworth County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ellsworth County, KS went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 430 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2858th 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 Ellsworth County, 2021
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2021 23:15 | January 4, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
| 2 | January 15, 2021 08:45 | January 15, 2021 09:15 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
| 3 | February 20, 2021 20:00 | February 20, 2021 20:30 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
| 4 | March 8, 2021 18:00 | March 8, 2021 18:15 | 15m | 11 | 3 |
| 5 | April 5, 2021 15:45 | April 5, 2021 22:45 | 7h | 11 | 77 |
| 6 | May 9, 2021 04:45 | May 9, 2021 05:45 | 1h | 11 | 11 |
| 7 | July 15, 2021 11:45 | July 15, 2021 13:45 | 2h | 10 | 20 |
| 8 | December 15, 2021 22:00 | December 17, 2021 04:30 | 1d 6h | 10 | 303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 0 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 Ellsworth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 42.3 hrs | 2.40 | 2.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holyrood - (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 ÷ 1,473 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. Ellsworth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellsworth 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/ellsworth-county