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2021 Norton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Norton County, KS went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1846th 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 Norton 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 | June 20, 2021 02:15 | June 23, 2021 18:45 | 3d 16h | 496 | 1,572 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 20:15 | December 23, 2021 15:15 | 7d 19h | 392 | 2,546 |
| 3 | July 9, 2021 19:00 | July 13, 2021 20:00 | 4d 1h | 251 | 1,364 |
| 4 | March 19, 2021 14:15 | April 16, 2021 08:30 | 27d 18h | 93 | 1,709 |
| 5 | June 18, 2021 23:30 | June 19, 2021 00:00 | 30m | 92 | 46 |
| 6 | September 30, 2021 04:00 | October 5, 2021 19:15 | 5d 15h | 74 | 560 |
| 7 | August 5, 2021 19:30 | August 18, 2021 14:00 | 12d 18h | 49 | 798 |
| 8 | February 3, 2021 17:30 | February 4, 2021 16:30 | 23h | 40 | 87 |
| 9 | April 16, 2021 09:30 | May 5, 2021 01:30 | 18d 16h | 36 | 1,085 |
| 10 | May 27, 2021 05:00 | May 27, 2021 16:00 | 11h | 33 | 282 |
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 Norton 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 Norton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,238 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. Norton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norton 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/norton-county