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2023 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 17.0 hours, a total of 241K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 503rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2023
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 15, 2023 17:00 | August 3, 2023 21:45 | 19d 4h | 10,807 | 206K |
| 2 | September 19, 2023 12:15 | September 20, 2023 12:30 | 1d | 2,413 | 1,600 |
| 3 | May 10, 2023 01:15 | May 10, 2023 08:00 | 6h 45m | 1,981 | 7,633 |
| 4 | July 14, 2023 18:15 | July 15, 2023 00:00 | 5h 45m | 1,272 | 1,574 |
| 5 | October 30, 2023 22:30 | October 31, 2023 00:00 | 1h 30m | 975 | 976 |
| 6 | August 5, 2023 01:15 | August 6, 2023 09:30 | 1d 8h | 904 | 3,166 |
| 7 | January 5, 2023 19:45 | January 5, 2023 23:00 | 3h 15m | 829 | 1,929 |
| 8 | March 7, 2023 17:30 | March 7, 2023 18:15 | 45m | 737 | 553 |
| 9 | September 21, 2023 13:45 | September 21, 2023 20:30 | 6h 45m | 714 | 774 |
| 10 | June 29, 2023 13:30 | June 29, 2023 14:30 | 1h | 634 | 634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.43 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 |
| 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 n/a of Kansas's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/kansas/barton-county