County annual report · FIPS 20203
2024 Wichita County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wichita County, KS went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 8,740 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1755th 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 Wichita 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 | November 10, 2024 18:15 | November 10, 2024 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,983 | 2,274 |
| 2 | April 16, 2024 16:15 | April 16, 2024 21:00 | 4h 45m | 405 | 977 |
| 3 | March 5, 2024 14:15 | March 5, 2024 14:45 | 30m | 368 | 166 |
| 4 | March 5, 2024 21:45 | March 8, 2024 23:00 | 3d 1h | 180 | 265 |
| 5 | January 8, 2024 17:45 | January 11, 2024 22:30 | 3d 4h | 170 | 2,598 |
| 6 | June 14, 2024 00:00 | June 14, 2024 01:00 | 1h | 119 | 89 |
| 7 | April 5, 2024 20:45 | April 5, 2024 21:45 | 1h | 103 | 103 |
| 8 | January 14, 2024 00:30 | January 14, 2024 02:00 | 1h 30m | 99 | 149 |
| 9 | October 21, 2024 11:45 | October 21, 2024 13:45 | 2h | 74 | 67 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 11:45 | August 6, 2024 17:45 | 6h | 55 | 315 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.77 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/wichita-county