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2016 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 9,069 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 571st 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 Elk 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 | July 12, 2016 11:30 | July 12, 2016 13:00 | 1h 30m | 1,153 | 1,687 |
| 2 | July 29, 2016 03:30 | July 29, 2016 13:45 | 10h 15m | 879 | 5,292 |
| 3 | November 14, 2016 17:45 | November 14, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 149 | 93 |
| 4 | February 2, 2016 06:00 | February 2, 2016 09:15 | 3h 15m | 90 | 270 |
| 5 | October 12, 2016 15:00 | October 12, 2016 15:15 | 15m | 89 | 22 |
| 6 | June 8, 2016 17:00 | June 9, 2016 01:45 | 8h 45m | 80 | 38 |
| 7 | October 7, 2016 02:00 | October 7, 2016 03:45 | 1h 45m | 80 | 104 |
| 8 | April 18, 2016 01:45 | April 18, 2016 03:45 | 2h | 79 | 158 |
| 9 | April 27, 2016 04:15 | April 27, 2016 05:00 | 45m | 79 | 42 |
| 10 | July 8, 2016 03:00 | July 8, 2016 09:45 | 6h 45m | 79 | 533 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county