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2021 Pawnee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pawnee County, KS went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1694th 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 Pawnee 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 18:30 | December 28, 2021 17:30 | 12d 23h | 906 | 16K |
| 2 | March 7, 2021 15:00 | March 7, 2021 16:45 | 1h 45m | 818 | 1,227 |
| 3 | September 14, 2021 23:45 | September 15, 2021 02:00 | 2h 15m | 611 | 868 |
| 4 | October 10, 2021 23:15 | October 11, 2021 02:00 | 2h 45m | 449 | 652 |
| 5 | August 16, 2021 02:30 | August 16, 2021 05:45 | 3h 15m | 327 | 697 |
| 6 | April 26, 2021 20:00 | April 26, 2021 21:30 | 1h 30m | 104 | 86 |
| 7 | September 24, 2021 23:30 | September 25, 2021 02:00 | 2h 30m | 101 | 78 |
| 8 | July 15, 2021 05:45 | July 15, 2021 10:15 | 4h 30m | 88 | 325 |
| 9 | February 21, 2021 19:30 | February 21, 2021 20:15 | 45m | 72 | 54 |
| 10 | July 10, 2021 08:30 | July 10, 2021 13:45 | 5h 15m | 45 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 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 Pawnee 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 |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Larned - (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 ÷ 5,884 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. Pawnee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pawnee 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/pawnee-county