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2022 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 7,495 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1259th 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 Ness 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 | March 22, 2022 08:45 | March 31, 2022 23:15 | 9d 14h | 541 | 7,423 |
| 2 | June 3, 2022 17:15 | June 3, 2022 19:30 | 2h 15m | 15 | 34 |
| 3 | December 8, 2022 16:45 | December 8, 2022 17:30 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | May 2, 2022 15:00 | May 2, 2022 15:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | May 18, 2022 05:00 | May 18, 2022 10:00 | 5h | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | May 21, 2022 16:00 | May 21, 2022 18:15 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | June 5, 2022 07:30 | June 5, 2022 09:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | June 26, 2022 13:45 | June 26, 2022 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | July 19, 2022 14:45 | July 19, 2022 15:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | July 23, 2022 12:30 | July 23, 2022 14:30 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 1 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 Ness 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county