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2021 Wichita County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wichita County, KS went without power for an average of 16.6 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 513th 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 Wichita 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 15:45 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 15d 8h | 1,467 | 25K |
| 2 | February 4, 2021 08:30 | February 4, 2021 20:15 | 11h 45m | 584 | 2,003 |
| 3 | November 14, 2021 15:15 | November 14, 2021 15:45 | 30m | 444 | 132 |
| 4 | October 16, 2021 23:00 | October 16, 2021 23:30 | 30m | 443 | 222 |
| 5 | December 3, 2021 20:15 | December 3, 2021 23:30 | 3h 15m | 442 | 871 |
| 6 | July 7, 2021 00:45 | July 7, 2021 13:45 | 13h | 396 | 704 |
| 7 | June 8, 2021 18:30 | June 8, 2021 20:30 | 2h | 318 | 242 |
| 8 | January 11, 2021 22:15 | January 11, 2021 23:00 | 45m | 175 | 123 |
| 9 | September 26, 2021 12:45 | September 26, 2021 13:00 | 15m | 163 | 41 |
| 10 | March 8, 2021 16:15 | March 9, 2021 18:00 | 1d 1h | 149 | 162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 12 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 Wichita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.5 hrs | 0.97 |
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 ÷ 2,012 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. Wichita County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county