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2021 Morton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Morton County, KS went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 6,177 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1185th 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 Morton 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 17:00 | December 16, 2021 02:00 | 9h | 1,245 | 6,020 |
| 2 | April 20, 2021 16:00 | April 20, 2021 18:15 | 2h 15m | 13 | 14 |
| 3 | April 25, 2021 01:15 | April 25, 2021 03:00 | 1h 45m | 11 | 7 |
| 4 | June 28, 2021 13:45 | June 28, 2021 15:45 | 2h | 10 | 18 |
| 5 | February 16, 2021 14:00 | February 16, 2021 16:00 | 2h | 8 | 14 |
| 6 | March 17, 2021 22:15 | March 18, 2021 01:45 | 3h 30m | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | September 18, 2021 00:15 | September 18, 2021 03:30 | 3h 15m | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | December 17, 2021 15:30 | December 17, 2021 17:15 | 1h 45m | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | June 2, 2021 15:00 | June 2, 2021 16:00 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | December 6, 2021 18:00 | December 6, 2021 19:30 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 1 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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 3.4 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,066 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. Morton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morton 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/morton-county