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2025 Barton County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Barton County, KS went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.9 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 99 Kansas counties and 1977th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2025
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 13, 2025 11:15 | June 13, 2025 12:45 | 1h 30m | 1,658 | 1,613 |
| 2 | May 25, 2025 11:30 | May 26, 2025 00:30 | 13h | 1,200 | 2,703 |
| 3 | November 21, 2025 01:15 | November 21, 2025 13:45 | 12h 30m | 1,035 | 8,915 |
| 4 | September 12, 2025 13:30 | September 16, 2025 21:15 | 4d 7h | 982 | 3,498 |
| 5 | August 21, 2025 16:30 | August 22, 2025 17:00 | 1d | 845 | 2,372 |
| 6 | May 26, 2025 08:00 | May 26, 2025 09:30 | 1h 30m | 683 | 1,024 |
| 7 | October 16, 2025 14:30 | October 21, 2025 21:30 | 5d 7h | 658 | 1,071 |
| 8 | November 21, 2025 14:30 | November 21, 2025 19:15 | 4h 45m | 637 | 170 |
| 9 | January 6, 2025 12:30 | January 6, 2025 15:45 | 3h 15m | 598 | 752 |
| 10 | April 23, 2025 14:30 | April 23, 2025 21:00 | 6h 30m | 580 | 733 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 33 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/kansas/barton-county