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2016 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 5,393 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 78 Kansas counties and 2153rd 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 McPherson 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 | March 24, 2016 14:15 | March 24, 2016 18:00 | 3h 45m | 1,533 | 1,365 |
| 2 | June 15, 2016 23:00 | June 16, 2016 21:15 | 22h 15m | 336 | 994 |
| 3 | October 28, 2016 07:15 | October 28, 2016 10:00 | 2h 45m | 104 | 260 |
| 4 | August 30, 2016 05:45 | August 30, 2016 09:15 | 3h 30m | 103 | 258 |
| 5 | April 18, 2016 04:45 | April 18, 2016 09:30 | 4h 45m | 92 | 187 |
| 6 | August 16, 2016 05:15 | August 16, 2016 07:30 | 2h 15m | 91 | 205 |
| 7 | October 6, 2016 21:30 | October 7, 2016 10:45 | 13h 15m | 91 | 913 |
| 8 | December 2, 2016 17:00 | December 2, 2016 18:45 | 1h 45m | 91 | 159 |
| 9 | July 15, 2016 08:30 | July 15, 2016 09:15 | 45m | 90 | 68 |
| 10 | October 2, 2016 16:30 | October 2, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 67 | 84 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2016 | 6.3 hrs | 2.92 | 3.0 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.87 | 46 min | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Moundridge - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county