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2016 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1550th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2016 13:45 | January 4, 2016 21:15 | 7h 30m | 1,421 | 1,073 |
| 2 | October 22, 2016 19:30 | October 22, 2016 22:45 | 3h 15m | 1,341 | 2,982 |
| 3 | March 7, 2016 01:30 | March 7, 2016 04:00 | 2h 30m | 1,314 | 2,300 |
| 4 | April 10, 2016 13:30 | April 11, 2016 01:45 | 12h 15m | 1,301 | 7,298 |
| 5 | July 2, 2016 22:45 | July 3, 2016 23:30 | 1d | 1,101 | 5,043 |
| 6 | May 18, 2016 06:30 | May 18, 2016 11:30 | 5h | 1,090 | 3,114 |
| 7 | June 23, 2016 20:00 | June 24, 2016 08:45 | 12h 45m | 1,004 | 1,590 |
| 8 | August 20, 2016 00:30 | August 20, 2016 18:15 | 17h 45m | 987 | 1,945 |
| 9 | April 26, 2016 13:30 | April 26, 2016 17:30 | 4h | 946 | 725 |
| 10 | March 8, 2016 02:15 | March 8, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 898 | 1,567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 | 67 min | 0.71 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.41 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.40 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2016 | 5.9 hrs | 2.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.83 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.65 | 3.4 hrs | 1.65 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/kansas/butler-county