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2022 Wichita County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wichita County, KS went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 540th 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 Wichita 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 | July 23, 2022 00:30 | July 23, 2022 03:30 | 3h | 2,004 | 4,906 |
| 2 | April 22, 2022 23:15 | April 23, 2022 04:15 | 5h | 1,996 | 8,485 |
| 3 | May 13, 2022 14:00 | May 16, 2022 22:00 | 3d 8h | 1,581 | 2,845 |
| 4 | December 17, 2022 18:00 | December 17, 2022 19:00 | 1h | 399 | 383 |
| 5 | June 12, 2022 15:15 | June 12, 2022 16:45 | 1h 30m | 389 | 537 |
| 6 | April 29, 2022 21:15 | April 30, 2022 01:45 | 4h 30m | 372 | 377 |
| 7 | May 30, 2022 18:15 | May 30, 2022 21:00 | 2h 45m | 371 | 928 |
| 8 | March 22, 2022 06:30 | March 22, 2022 20:15 | 13h 45m | 278 | 990 |
| 9 | September 20, 2022 16:30 | September 20, 2022 17:15 | 45m | 268 | 201 |
| 10 | December 8, 2022 20:30 | December 9, 2022 23:00 | 1d 2h | 268 | 434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 3.1 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.71 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/wichita-county