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2022 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1615th 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 Ellis 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 | May 1, 2022 13:00 | May 1, 2022 15:15 | 2h 15m | 4,454 | 3,871 |
| 2 | March 22, 2022 07:30 | March 28, 2022 13:00 | 6d 5h | 4,141 | 27K |
| 3 | December 24, 2022 21:30 | December 24, 2022 22:45 | 1h 15m | 1,475 | 1,111 |
| 4 | January 24, 2022 16:15 | January 24, 2022 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,365 | 719 |
| 5 | July 25, 2022 10:30 | July 25, 2022 12:00 | 1h 30m | 1,137 | 589 |
| 6 | June 21, 2022 00:30 | June 21, 2022 01:15 | 45m | 1,136 | 852 |
| 7 | August 7, 2022 05:30 | August 7, 2022 06:15 | 45m | 1,034 | 274 |
| 8 | May 4, 2022 06:15 | May 4, 2022 11:15 | 5h | 1,017 | 5,085 |
| 9 | November 10, 2022 03:00 | November 10, 2022 04:30 | 1h 30m | 1,002 | 1,181 |
| 10 | October 16, 2022 19:45 | October 16, 2022 22:15 | 2h 30m | 727 | 971 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 35 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Ellis 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 |
| 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 59% of Kansas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,869 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. Ellis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ellis 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/ellis-county