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2017 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 1852nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 10, 2017 07:45 | September 10, 2017 13:00 | 5h 15m | 1,864 | 3,350 |
| 2 | March 24, 2017 17:45 | March 24, 2017 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,283 | 347 |
| 3 | August 16, 2017 20:45 | August 17, 2017 09:45 | 13h | 1,222 | 2,013 |
| 4 | June 15, 2017 22:15 | June 17, 2017 10:30 | 1d 12h | 1,101 | 2,938 |
| 5 | August 22, 2017 12:30 | August 22, 2017 17:00 | 4h 30m | 1,009 | 1,338 |
| 6 | December 19, 2017 14:00 | December 19, 2017 16:00 | 2h | 1,007 | 257 |
| 7 | May 18, 2017 23:45 | May 19, 2017 21:45 | 22h | 983 | 1,772 |
| 8 | January 27, 2017 21:30 | January 27, 2017 22:00 | 30m | 975 | 488 |
| 9 | March 27, 2017 02:45 | March 27, 2017 04:30 | 1h 45m | 974 | 731 |
| 10 | October 3, 2017 13:30 | October 3, 2017 19:45 | 6h 15m | 970 | 2,021 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 49 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.6 hrs | 1.37 | 73 min | 0.71 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.23 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 89 min | 0.94 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2017 | 4.2 hrs | 2.93 | 2.4 hrs | 2.02 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.49 | 2.7 hrs | 1.49 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/kansas/butler-county