County annual report · FIPS 20035
2016 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1773rd 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 Cowley 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 | August 19, 2016 20:15 | August 19, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 1,883 | 2,113 |
| 2 | April 27, 2016 02:00 | April 27, 2016 15:30 | 13h 30m | 994 | 2,353 |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 16:15 | July 15, 2016 09:30 | 17h 15m | 952 | 2,160 |
| 4 | May 13, 2016 23:30 | May 14, 2016 14:30 | 15h | 329 | 2,160 |
| 5 | August 19, 2016 23:30 | August 20, 2016 20:00 | 20h 30m | 295 | 2,278 |
| 6 | August 21, 2016 04:15 | August 21, 2016 07:00 | 2h 45m | 231 | 463 |
| 7 | June 20, 2016 18:15 | June 20, 2016 21:00 | 2h 45m | 223 | 170 |
| 8 | June 24, 2016 04:15 | June 24, 2016 21:30 | 17h 15m | 192 | 600 |
| 9 | September 9, 2016 02:45 | September 9, 2016 18:45 | 16h | 136 | 489 |
| 10 | May 25, 2016 06:30 | May 25, 2016 19:00 | 12h 30m | 126 | 447 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.40 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county