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2017 Cherokee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cherokee County, KS went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 831st 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 Cherokee 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 | May 19, 2017 04:30 | May 19, 2017 07:30 | 3h | 1,580 | 1,668 |
| 2 | May 23, 2017 02:00 | May 23, 2017 05:15 | 3h 15m | 1,540 | 4,417 |
| 3 | August 27, 2017 01:15 | August 27, 2017 04:45 | 3h 30m | 1,488 | 4,008 |
| 4 | March 31, 2017 21:30 | March 31, 2017 23:00 | 1h 30m | 1,198 | 1,740 |
| 5 | March 27, 2017 08:30 | March 27, 2017 14:45 | 6h 15m | 581 | 3,364 |
| 6 | June 17, 2017 12:30 | June 18, 2017 01:45 | 13h 15m | 571 | 1,714 |
| 7 | April 21, 2017 09:00 | April 21, 2017 09:30 | 30m | 394 | 197 |
| 8 | January 3, 2017 13:45 | January 3, 2017 14:15 | 30m | 95 | 48 |
| 9 | September 30, 2017 12:30 | September 30, 2017 13:45 | 1h 15m | 85 | 106 |
| 10 | December 6, 2017 15:45 | December 6, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 81 | 61 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Cherokee 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 Kansas South, Inc | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 89 min | 0.94 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.30 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.76 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.42 | 68 min | 0.75 |
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 ÷ 2,982 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county