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2023 Decatur County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Decatur County, KS went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1442nd 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 Decatur 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 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 98d 5h | 1,161 | 5,745 |
| 2 | May 28, 2023 11:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 14d 1h | 31 | 537 |
| 3 | May 9, 2023 13:45 | May 9, 2023 19:00 | 5h 15m | 25 | 80 |
| 4 | November 9, 2023 15:45 | November 9, 2023 22:00 | 6h 15m | 25 | 49 |
| 5 | May 10, 2023 19:30 | May 16, 2023 10:30 | 5d 15h | 19 | 235 |
| 6 | February 7, 2023 16:45 | April 12, 2023 19:45 | 64d 3h | 17 | 3,249 |
| 7 | April 27, 2023 22:45 | May 3, 2023 12:45 | 5d 14h | 17 | 477 |
| 8 | May 4, 2023 11:30 | May 4, 2023 11:45 | 15m | 15 | 4 |
| 9 | October 17, 2023 03:30 | October 17, 2023 12:45 | 9h 15m | 15 | 138 |
| 10 | January 20, 2023 20:00 | January 20, 2023 22:00 | 2h | 12 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Decatur 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (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 ÷ 2,329 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county