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2021 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 9,253 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2566th 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 Thomas 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 17:30 | December 16, 2021 01:00 | 7h 30m | 1,286 | 2,669 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 03:00 | December 16, 2021 03:15 | 15m | 1,082 | 271 |
| 3 | February 23, 2021 21:00 | February 23, 2021 21:30 | 30m | 965 | 483 |
| 4 | April 2, 2021 09:15 | April 2, 2021 14:00 | 4h 45m | 534 | 1,910 |
| 5 | December 16, 2021 14:15 | December 16, 2021 16:45 | 2h 30m | 361 | 274 |
| 6 | February 4, 2021 06:30 | February 4, 2021 12:45 | 6h 15m | 332 | 643 |
| 7 | July 29, 2021 17:15 | July 29, 2021 20:00 | 2h 45m | 306 | 219 |
| 8 | June 20, 2021 01:45 | June 20, 2021 17:45 | 16h | 224 | 741 |
| 9 | February 23, 2021 14:30 | February 23, 2021 16:45 | 2h 15m | 182 | 137 |
| 10 | February 4, 2021 13:30 | February 5, 2021 21:15 | 1d 7h | 110 | 300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 11 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county