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2015 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 77 Kansas counties and 1007th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2015
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 27, 2015 17:30 | November 28, 2015 07:15 | 13h 45m | 4,523 | 20K |
| 2 | November 13, 2015 00:30 | November 13, 2015 07:15 | 6h 45m | 3,238 | 5,247 |
| 3 | July 7, 2015 03:15 | July 8, 2015 18:30 | 1d 15h | 2,103 | 12K |
| 4 | July 6, 2015 21:45 | July 7, 2015 01:45 | 4h | 2,064 | 6,722 |
| 5 | November 29, 2015 09:15 | December 2, 2015 02:00 | 2d 16h | 1,920 | 12K |
| 6 | July 25, 2015 13:30 | July 25, 2015 16:30 | 3h | 1,660 | 1,358 |
| 7 | December 27, 2015 23:45 | December 29, 2015 06:45 | 1d 7h | 1,494 | 11K |
| 8 | September 25, 2015 18:45 | September 25, 2015 23:45 | 5h | 1,318 | 2,625 |
| 9 | August 31, 2015 23:00 | September 1, 2015 03:15 | 4h 15m | 1,313 | 2,913 |
| 10 | July 9, 2015 12:15 | July 10, 2015 00:45 | 12h 30m | 886 | 678 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 42 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Metro | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.06 | 80 min | 0.90 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2015 | 3.9 hrs | 1.72 | 2.3 hrs | 1.43 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.69 | 1.8 hrs | 1.26 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2015 | 15.0 hrs | 4.61 | 4.0 hrs | 2.88 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2015 | 224.7 hrs | 1.77 | 9.1 hrs | 1.22 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/kansas/butler-county