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2022 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1387th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 2, 2022 00:00 | September 6, 2022 19:15 | 4d 19h | 5,575 | 13K |
| 2 | March 1, 2022 14:45 | March 1, 2022 20:00 | 5h 15m | 3,609 | 1,362 |
| 3 | September 18, 2022 00:00 | September 20, 2022 00:15 | 2d | 3,424 | 5,231 |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 20:45 | December 28, 2022 23:00 | 5d 2h | 2,526 | 9,231 |
| 5 | May 1, 2022 17:15 | May 4, 2022 22:00 | 3d 4h | 1,331 | 883 |
| 6 | December 22, 2022 04:15 | December 23, 2022 00:30 | 20h 15m | 1,027 | 6,355 |
| 7 | April 30, 2022 00:15 | April 30, 2022 14:15 | 14h | 916 | 2,199 |
| 8 | January 10, 2022 00:00 | January 10, 2022 02:00 | 2h | 820 | 1,348 |
| 9 | May 18, 2022 02:00 | May 18, 2022 08:30 | 6h 30m | 745 | 1,399 |
| 10 | July 12, 2022 04:15 | July 12, 2022 06:45 | 2h 30m | 711 | 1,600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 29 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 10.8 hrs | 2.14 | 3.0 hrs | 1.58 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 3.1 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.71 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 59% of Kansas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/kansas/barton-county