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2021 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 2,500 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2253rd 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 Ness 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 | February 16, 2021 15:30 | February 16, 2021 17:00 | 1h 30m | 545 | 818 |
| 2 | May 19, 2021 19:15 | May 19, 2021 20:15 | 1h | 247 | 186 |
| 3 | December 15, 2021 19:45 | December 17, 2021 21:00 | 2d 1h | 247 | 1,341 |
| 4 | August 13, 2021 18:30 | August 13, 2021 18:45 | 15m | 28 | 7 |
| 5 | May 25, 2021 04:00 | May 25, 2021 05:15 | 1h 15m | 20 | 20 |
| 6 | March 2, 2021 03:30 | March 2, 2021 04:45 | 1h 15m | 19 | 24 |
| 7 | April 5, 2021 14:30 | April 5, 2021 15:30 | 1h | 19 | 15 |
| 8 | February 16, 2021 18:00 | February 16, 2021 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | March 13, 2021 13:15 | March 13, 2021 14:30 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | March 15, 2021 13:45 | March 15, 2021 15:00 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Ness 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 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county