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2021 Sheridan County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sheridan County, KS went without power for an average of 15.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 566th 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 Sheridan 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 20:30 | December 17, 2021 02:30 | 1d 6h | 1,042 | 3,473 |
| 2 | February 4, 2021 09:15 | April 16, 2021 08:30 | 70d 23h | 887 | 4,243 |
| 3 | June 17, 2021 22:30 | June 21, 2021 22:15 | 3d 23h | 875 | 8,489 |
| 4 | June 23, 2021 17:15 | June 24, 2021 00:00 | 6h 45m | 279 | 1,879 |
| 5 | May 25, 2021 00:45 | May 26, 2021 04:45 | 1d 4h | 276 | 3,620 |
| 6 | October 7, 2021 13:15 | October 7, 2021 13:45 | 30m | 269 | 68 |
| 7 | May 19, 2021 18:15 | May 19, 2021 19:00 | 45m | 221 | 57 |
| 8 | June 12, 2021 14:15 | June 12, 2021 19:30 | 5h 15m | 213 | 218 |
| 9 | January 23, 2021 19:00 | January 23, 2021 21:15 | 2h 15m | 127 | 254 |
| 10 | April 16, 2021 09:30 | May 5, 2021 01:30 | 18d 16h | 66 | 813 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 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 Sheridan 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn 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 ÷ 1,648 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. Sheridan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sheridan 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/sheridan-county