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2021 Wallace County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wallace County, KS went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 5,313 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1612th 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 Wallace 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 23, 2021 17:45 | February 23, 2021 21:30 | 3h 45m | 329 | 687 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 19:30 | December 17, 2021 21:00 | 2d 1h | 288 | 1,818 |
| 3 | April 15, 2021 10:45 | April 15, 2021 13:00 | 2h 15m | 195 | 439 |
| 4 | October 13, 2021 00:45 | October 13, 2021 03:15 | 2h 30m | 138 | 242 |
| 5 | May 15, 2021 13:45 | May 15, 2021 16:15 | 2h 30m | 130 | 294 |
| 6 | March 25, 2021 17:30 | March 25, 2021 18:30 | 1h | 89 | 89 |
| 7 | August 13, 2021 14:00 | August 13, 2021 17:15 | 3h 15m | 66 | 20 |
| 8 | August 12, 2021 23:15 | August 13, 2021 03:00 | 3h 45m | 64 | 193 |
| 9 | July 10, 2021 14:45 | July 10, 2021 15:15 | 30m | 60 | 30 |
| 10 | March 14, 2021 07:15 | March 14, 2021 11:00 | 3h 45m | 53 | 199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Wallace 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 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.5 hrs | 0.97 |
| City of Sharon Springs - (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 ÷ 1,427 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. Wallace County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wallace 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/wallace-county