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2023 Sherman County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sherman County, KS went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 9,809 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2394th 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 Sherman 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 10, 2023 03:15 | June 10, 2023 09:00 | 5h 45m | 776 | 3,926 |
| 2 | June 1, 2023 17:45 | June 1, 2023 19:00 | 1h 15m | 716 | 538 |
| 3 | August 8, 2023 00:30 | August 8, 2023 03:00 | 2h 30m | 367 | 455 |
| 4 | February 21, 2023 16:30 | February 21, 2023 19:45 | 3h 15m | 226 | 735 |
| 5 | December 2, 2023 01:00 | December 2, 2023 04:00 | 3h | 225 | 593 |
| 6 | May 11, 2023 02:00 | May 11, 2023 05:15 | 3h 15m | 224 | 728 |
| 7 | December 24, 2023 08:15 | December 27, 2023 15:45 | 3d 7h | 147 | 655 |
| 8 | November 29, 2023 04:45 | November 29, 2023 06:30 | 1h 45m | 107 | 182 |
| 9 | November 12, 2023 16:00 | November 12, 2023 16:45 | 45m | 59 | 41 |
| 10 | July 8, 2023 23:30 | July 10, 2023 14:15 | 1d 14h | 58 | 550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 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 Sherman 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 Goodland - (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 ÷ 5,649 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. Sherman County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sherman 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/sherman-county