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2023 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 2,131 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2437th 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 Ness 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 | March 10, 2023 11:30 | March 10, 2023 19:00 | 7h 30m | 490 | 1,798 |
| 2 | April 15, 2023 05:15 | April 15, 2023 06:00 | 45m | 236 | 177 |
| 3 | July 14, 2023 04:45 | July 14, 2023 08:45 | 4h | 20 | 66 |
| 4 | October 11, 2023 00:30 | October 11, 2023 01:00 | 30m | 12 | 6 |
| 5 | April 19, 2023 21:30 | April 19, 2023 21:45 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | January 5, 2023 19:45 | January 5, 2023 21:15 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | February 5, 2023 14:00 | February 5, 2023 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | March 18, 2023 16:00 | March 18, 2023 17:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | May 10, 2023 02:45 | May 10, 2023 13:15 | 10h 30m | 1 | 11 |
| 10 | June 21, 2023 19:30 | June 21, 2023 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Kansas's customers in 2023; 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, 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/ness-county