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2016 Reno County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Reno County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 78 Kansas counties and 1572nd 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 Reno 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 13, 2016 17:45 | March 13, 2016 21:45 | 4h | 2,492 | 3,732 |
| 2 | May 25, 2016 02:00 | May 25, 2016 11:30 | 9h 30m | 2,053 | 1,439 |
| 3 | March 23, 2016 19:30 | March 25, 2016 00:00 | 1d 4h | 1,951 | 4,137 |
| 4 | December 4, 2016 04:15 | December 4, 2016 10:30 | 6h 15m | 1,860 | 2,887 |
| 5 | February 8, 2016 16:00 | February 9, 2016 00:15 | 8h 15m | 1,603 | 1,697 |
| 6 | December 25, 2016 17:15 | December 25, 2016 22:45 | 5h 30m | 1,279 | 2,089 |
| 7 | January 14, 2016 21:15 | January 14, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 1,138 | 1,423 |
| 8 | June 15, 2016 21:45 | June 16, 2016 07:15 | 9h 30m | 987 | 2,478 |
| 9 | December 2, 2016 17:45 | December 3, 2016 01:45 | 8h | 856 | 1,613 |
| 10 | May 16, 2016 09:30 | May 16, 2016 12:30 | 3h | 825 | 211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 37 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Reno 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 |
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Sedgwick County El Coop Assn Inc | 2016 | 3.7 hrs | 1.73 | 2.7 hrs | 1.43 |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Haven - (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 ÷ 35,754 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. Reno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Reno 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/reno-county