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2023 Ellis County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ellis County, KS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2628th 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 Ellis 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 | February 28, 2023 22:00 | March 1, 2023 01:30 | 3h 30m | 4,660 | 2,111 |
| 2 | December 24, 2023 18:30 | December 24, 2023 21:30 | 3h | 2,151 | 3,765 |
| 3 | July 26, 2023 23:15 | July 27, 2023 04:30 | 5h 15m | 1,156 | 2,095 |
| 4 | March 22, 2023 12:45 | March 22, 2023 13:30 | 45m | 900 | 675 |
| 5 | March 30, 2023 14:30 | March 30, 2023 15:30 | 1h | 886 | 729 |
| 6 | March 30, 2023 17:15 | March 30, 2023 18:00 | 45m | 790 | 507 |
| 7 | January 22, 2023 05:30 | January 22, 2023 09:30 | 4h | 576 | 1,650 |
| 8 | July 21, 2023 11:15 | July 21, 2023 13:15 | 2h | 451 | 779 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 23:30 | July 19, 2023 02:45 | 3h 15m | 440 | 1,133 |
| 10 | April 2, 2023 17:45 | April 2, 2023 18:45 | 1h | 417 | 417 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 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 Ellis 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 |
| 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 n/a of Kansas's customers in 2023; 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, 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/ellis-county