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2023 Thomas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Thomas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 8,114 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2637th 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 Thomas 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 | October 18, 2023 14:15 | October 18, 2023 14:45 | 30m | 550 | 138 |
| 2 | June 30, 2023 22:45 | July 1, 2023 03:00 | 4h 15m | 401 | 379 |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 23:15 | July 20, 2023 14:15 | 15h | 363 | 2,630 |
| 4 | May 31, 2023 04:45 | May 31, 2023 05:15 | 30m | 340 | 85 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 15:45 | July 21, 2023 15:00 | 23h 15m | 279 | 1,015 |
| 6 | May 11, 2023 20:15 | May 11, 2023 21:15 | 1h | 174 | 174 |
| 7 | October 4, 2023 14:15 | October 4, 2023 17:15 | 3h | 170 | 335 |
| 8 | December 23, 2023 18:30 | December 23, 2023 21:15 | 2h 45m | 135 | 345 |
| 9 | July 9, 2023 00:30 | July 9, 2023 02:45 | 2h 15m | 132 | 231 |
| 10 | August 19, 2023 09:00 | August 19, 2023 10:15 | 1h 15m | 131 | 131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 13 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 Thomas 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 Colby - (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 ÷ 7,359 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county