County annual report · FIPS 20143
2016 Ottawa County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ottawa County, KS went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 78 Kansas counties and 361st 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 Ottawa 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 2, 2016 16:45 | December 2, 2016 18:45 | 2h | 1,689 | 2,916 |
| 2 | December 30, 2016 05:15 | December 30, 2016 06:15 | 1h | 804 | 488 |
| 3 | April 28, 2016 23:00 | April 28, 2016 23:30 | 30m | 627 | 314 |
| 4 | May 25, 2016 03:15 | May 25, 2016 17:45 | 14h 30m | 562 | 6,700 |
| 5 | September 8, 2016 05:15 | September 8, 2016 09:00 | 3h 45m | 294 | 1,103 |
| 6 | January 21, 2016 05:30 | January 21, 2016 08:15 | 2h 45m | 275 | 624 |
| 7 | November 8, 2016 18:45 | November 8, 2016 20:45 | 2h | 149 | 39 |
| 8 | November 26, 2016 09:00 | November 26, 2016 12:45 | 3h 45m | 148 | 519 |
| 9 | August 2, 2016 21:45 | August 2, 2016 22:30 | 45m | 134 | 101 |
| 10 | April 11, 2016 20:00 | April 11, 2016 23:30 | 3h 30m | 85 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Ottawa 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Minneapolis - (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 ÷ 1,406 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. Ottawa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ottawa 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/ottawa-county