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2015 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 77 Kansas counties and 221st 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 Rice 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 | May 29, 2015 05:15 | May 29, 2015 07:00 | 1h 45m | 6,094 | 4,350 |
| 2 | May 29, 2015 22:45 | May 30, 2015 04:00 | 5h 15m | 3,232 | 4,081 |
| 3 | April 26, 2015 08:15 | April 26, 2015 19:45 | 11h 30m | 1,871 | 1,957 |
| 4 | April 24, 2015 07:00 | April 24, 2015 09:00 | 2h | 1,571 | 3,142 |
| 5 | June 24, 2015 14:30 | June 24, 2015 20:45 | 6h 15m | 1,220 | 993 |
| 6 | November 11, 2015 22:00 | November 12, 2015 07:45 | 9h 45m | 1,092 | 3,003 |
| 7 | June 15, 2015 01:15 | June 15, 2015 02:30 | 1h 15m | 428 | 429 |
| 8 | December 13, 2015 02:00 | December 13, 2015 04:45 | 2h 45m | 404 | 1,104 |
| 9 | April 15, 2015 05:30 | April 15, 2015 09:15 | 3h 45m | 313 | 1,018 |
| 10 | June 17, 2015 04:15 | June 17, 2015 05:00 | 45m | 312 | 234 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 36 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county