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2017 Clay County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clay County, KS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 1286th 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 Clay 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 | December 26, 2017 21:00 | December 28, 2017 03:30 | 1d 6h | 2,346 | 10K |
| 2 | December 1, 2017 14:00 | December 1, 2017 20:15 | 6h 15m | 1,907 | 1,922 |
| 3 | November 27, 2017 13:30 | November 27, 2017 14:15 | 45m | 1,454 | 1,091 |
| 4 | December 10, 2017 14:00 | December 10, 2017 14:45 | 45m | 1,377 | 703 |
| 5 | August 23, 2017 15:00 | August 23, 2017 16:30 | 1h 30m | 474 | 122 |
| 6 | December 26, 2017 07:30 | December 26, 2017 09:15 | 1h 45m | 214 | 303 |
| 7 | December 24, 2017 18:30 | December 24, 2017 21:30 | 3h | 186 | 281 |
| 8 | December 4, 2017 20:15 | December 5, 2017 14:00 | 17h 45m | 173 | 665 |
| 9 | December 13, 2017 15:00 | December 14, 2017 01:45 | 10h 45m | 161 | 392 |
| 10 | May 17, 2017 01:00 | May 17, 2017 02:15 | 1h 15m | 157 | 196 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 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 Clay 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Clay Center - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county