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2023 Norton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Norton County, KS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1903rd 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 Norton 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 | August 5, 2023 14:45 | August 22, 2023 16:00 | 17d 1h | 302 | 2,655 |
| 2 | July 1, 2023 00:00 | July 7, 2023 16:30 | 6d 16h | 264 | 3,496 |
| 3 | July 20, 2023 00:00 | July 20, 2023 00:30 | 30m | 184 | 88 |
| 4 | June 29, 2023 08:30 | June 30, 2023 19:30 | 1d 11h | 136 | 348 |
| 5 | March 7, 2023 15:15 | March 30, 2023 12:45 | 22d 21h | 115 | 1,891 |
| 6 | September 9, 2023 08:00 | September 9, 2023 22:15 | 14h 15m | 104 | 210 |
| 7 | May 23, 2023 08:45 | May 23, 2023 12:30 | 3h 45m | 49 | 135 |
| 8 | November 2, 2023 22:30 | November 3, 2023 12:45 | 14h 15m | 47 | 68 |
| 9 | December 12, 2023 17:15 | December 18, 2023 18:00 | 6d | 44 | 355 |
| 10 | July 22, 2023 20:00 | July 24, 2023 20:15 | 2d | 39 | 390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 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 Norton 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 Norton | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,238 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. Norton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Norton 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/norton-county