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2016 Cherokee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cherokee County, KS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 9,676 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 934th 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 Cherokee 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 | December 21, 2016 18:00 | December 21, 2016 19:00 | 1h | 2,473 | 1,943 |
| 2 | July 8, 2016 05:30 | July 8, 2016 13:45 | 8h 15m | 1,043 | 1,755 |
| 3 | June 1, 2016 02:30 | June 1, 2016 03:30 | 1h | 985 | 791 |
| 4 | February 18, 2016 18:00 | February 18, 2016 18:15 | 15m | 983 | 246 |
| 5 | February 18, 2016 16:45 | February 18, 2016 17:15 | 30m | 982 | 491 |
| 6 | March 10, 2016 16:30 | March 10, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 926 | 1,157 |
| 7 | January 8, 2016 15:00 | January 8, 2016 17:30 | 2h 30m | 898 | 687 |
| 8 | October 28, 2016 14:45 | October 28, 2016 15:00 | 15m | 727 | 182 |
| 9 | August 7, 2016 16:30 | August 7, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 664 | 316 |
| 10 | June 24, 2016 12:45 | June 24, 2016 13:15 | 30m | 575 | 288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Cherokee 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 Kansas South, Inc | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.40 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.2 hrs | 1.58 |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 5.3 hrs | 2.00 | 5.3 hrs | 2.00 |
| Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 5.7 hrs | 2.50 | 3.2 hrs | 0.83 |
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 ÷ 2,982 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county