County annual report · FIPS 20113
2015 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 77 Kansas counties and 1998th 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 McPherson 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 29, 2015 06:30 | December 3, 2015 00:00 | 3d 17h | 757 | 9,419 |
| 2 | August 5, 2015 10:00 | August 6, 2015 20:45 | 1d 10h | 643 | 944 |
| 3 | November 17, 2015 07:30 | November 17, 2015 10:30 | 3h | 398 | 889 |
| 4 | June 26, 2015 05:15 | June 26, 2015 08:30 | 3h 15m | 392 | 1,274 |
| 5 | June 5, 2015 08:00 | June 5, 2015 19:15 | 11h 15m | 126 | 228 |
| 6 | November 29, 2015 04:30 | November 29, 2015 05:30 | 1h | 91 | 69 |
| 7 | September 18, 2015 06:00 | September 18, 2015 09:30 | 3h 30m | 90 | 315 |
| 8 | July 29, 2015 09:30 | July 29, 2015 14:00 | 4h 30m | 81 | 86 |
| 9 | July 15, 2015 14:45 | July 15, 2015 16:15 | 1h 30m | 65 | 64 |
| 10 | October 20, 2015 01:00 | October 20, 2015 02:30 | 1h 30m | 49 | 74 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2015 | 6.5 hrs | 2.04 | 2.9 hrs | 1.52 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2015 | 5.7 hrs | 0.40 | 25 min | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Moundridge - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county