County annual report · FIPS 20203
2023 Wichita County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wichita County, KS went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 517th 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 Wichita 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 | July 20, 2023 20:00 | July 21, 2023 06:15 | 10h 15m | 1,924 | 5,316 |
| 2 | June 2, 2023 14:30 | June 2, 2023 15:00 | 30m | 439 | 220 |
| 3 | February 4, 2023 17:45 | February 6, 2023 14:30 | 1d 20h | 316 | 14K |
| 4 | July 4, 2023 21:45 | July 10, 2023 20:15 | 5d 22h | 316 | 702 |
| 5 | January 12, 2023 00:45 | January 12, 2023 03:30 | 2h 45m | 269 | 539 |
| 6 | July 21, 2023 07:15 | August 1, 2023 19:45 | 11d 12h | 210 | 9,128 |
| 7 | December 29, 2023 23:00 | December 30, 2023 00:00 | 1h | 168 | 168 |
| 8 | May 19, 2023 17:45 | May 19, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 137 | 41 |
| 9 | November 27, 2023 17:00 | November 27, 2023 17:15 | 15m | 118 | 30 |
| 10 | May 8, 2023 16:30 | May 8, 2023 20:15 | 3h 45m | 117 | 428 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wichita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 |
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 ÷ 2,012 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. Wichita County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county