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2016 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 78 Kansas counties and 148th 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 Rice 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 | April 26, 2016 15:45 | April 27, 2016 20:15 | 1d 4h | 4,147 | 21K |
| 2 | May 7, 2016 19:30 | May 8, 2016 02:30 | 7h | 2,868 | 3,247 |
| 3 | November 24, 2016 15:00 | November 24, 2016 17:15 | 2h 15m | 1,802 | 2,829 |
| 4 | March 8, 2016 23:30 | March 9, 2016 02:15 | 2h 45m | 1,642 | 2,086 |
| 5 | October 6, 2016 18:15 | October 6, 2016 20:45 | 2h 30m | 1,449 | 552 |
| 6 | November 3, 2016 02:15 | November 3, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 1,292 | 1,333 |
| 7 | October 26, 2016 18:15 | October 27, 2016 01:15 | 7h | 1,134 | 1,287 |
| 8 | July 10, 2016 21:30 | July 11, 2016 04:30 | 7h | 960 | 3,976 |
| 9 | June 16, 2016 00:30 | June 16, 2016 04:30 | 4h | 827 | 1,304 |
| 10 | March 29, 2016 15:45 | March 29, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 596 | 301 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 36 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county