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2024 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1665th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 22, 2024 14:30 | April 22, 2024 15:15 | 45m | 9,029 | 2,671 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 00:30 | January 10, 2024 17:15 | 1d 16h | 2,789 | 18K |
| 3 | May 28, 2024 04:45 | May 28, 2024 12:45 | 8h | 1,212 | 9,483 |
| 4 | June 1, 2024 07:45 | June 1, 2024 10:15 | 2h 30m | 1,058 | 1,149 |
| 5 | April 19, 2024 14:15 | April 19, 2024 22:30 | 8h 15m | 931 | 3,537 |
| 6 | April 2, 2024 14:15 | April 2, 2024 20:15 | 6h | 900 | 5,151 |
| 7 | April 6, 2024 16:15 | April 8, 2024 16:45 | 2d | 744 | 1,612 |
| 8 | May 16, 2024 14:45 | May 22, 2024 13:00 | 5d 22h | 726 | 3,319 |
| 9 | May 4, 2024 08:30 | May 4, 2024 09:15 | 45m | 642 | 481 |
| 10 | July 12, 2024 00:30 | July 12, 2024 19:15 | 18h 45m | 548 | 1,540 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 7.2 hrs | 2.42 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.77 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellinwood - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hoisington - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,147 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, KS annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/kansas/barton-county