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2015 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 16.9 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 77 Kansas counties and 146th 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 Elk 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 | December 28, 2015 05:15 | December 29, 2015 07:15 | 1d 2h | 1,373 | 22K |
| 2 | December 27, 2015 00:15 | December 27, 2015 04:00 | 3h 45m | 880 | 2,587 |
| 3 | September 8, 2015 19:45 | September 8, 2015 23:00 | 3h 15m | 176 | 175 |
| 4 | December 17, 2015 16:00 | December 17, 2015 16:45 | 45m | 150 | 113 |
| 5 | August 23, 2015 18:15 | August 23, 2015 19:45 | 1h 30m | 79 | 119 |
| 6 | April 12, 2015 12:15 | April 12, 2015 17:45 | 5h 30m | 29 | 19 |
| 7 | June 5, 2015 10:45 | June 5, 2015 15:15 | 4h 30m | 29 | 67 |
| 8 | November 27, 2015 19:00 | November 28, 2015 05:15 | 10h 15m | 24 | 86 |
| 9 | September 22, 2015 04:15 | September 22, 2015 06:00 | 1h 45m | 23 | 25 |
| 10 | November 29, 2015 18:15 | November 30, 2015 06:00 | 11h 45m | 12 | 95 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county