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2025 Ness County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ness County, KS went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 7,222 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 99 Kansas counties and 1376th 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 Ness 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 18, 2025 16:30 | June 18, 2025 22:00 | 5h 30m | 483 | 1,926 |
| 2 | March 19, 2025 10:15 | March 19, 2025 10:30 | 15m | 232 | 58 |
| 3 | March 19, 2025 12:15 | March 20, 2025 01:30 | 13h 15m | 230 | 1,694 |
| 4 | March 31, 2025 14:00 | April 3, 2025 00:45 | 2d 10h | 88 | 1,235 |
| 5 | March 27, 2025 13:15 | March 27, 2025 19:30 | 6h 15m | 78 | 426 |
| 6 | April 14, 2025 21:30 | April 15, 2025 20:00 | 22h 30m | 43 | 212 |
| 7 | April 22, 2025 14:00 | April 23, 2025 00:45 | 10h 45m | 23 | 206 |
| 8 | December 5, 2025 20:00 | December 5, 2025 22:00 | 2h | 20 | 6 |
| 9 | April 16, 2025 14:00 | April 17, 2025 00:45 | 10h 45m | 16 | 42 |
| 10 | April 17, 2025 13:45 | April 17, 2025 21:15 | 7h 30m | 15 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 3 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 Ness 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 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,309 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. Ness County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ness 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/ness-county