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2017 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 1708th 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 Cowley 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 | August 5, 2017 21:15 | August 9, 2017 02:00 | 3d 4h | 2,438 | 14K |
| 2 | February 21, 2017 17:45 | February 21, 2017 18:00 | 15m | 1,581 | 395 |
| 3 | June 27, 2017 02:30 | June 28, 2017 18:00 | 1d 15h | 1,383 | 8,843 |
| 4 | April 4, 2017 23:30 | April 6, 2017 23:15 | 1d 23h | 1,147 | 3,952 |
| 5 | January 31, 2017 01:15 | January 31, 2017 02:45 | 1h 30m | 770 | 194 |
| 6 | April 14, 2017 08:45 | April 14, 2017 16:00 | 7h 15m | 435 | 1,051 |
| 7 | October 15, 2017 00:00 | October 15, 2017 15:45 | 15h 45m | 256 | 1,464 |
| 8 | July 27, 2017 18:30 | July 27, 2017 20:00 | 1h 30m | 232 | 348 |
| 9 | October 14, 2017 03:30 | October 14, 2017 07:15 | 3h 45m | 223 | 836 |
| 10 | January 15, 2017 11:15 | January 15, 2017 15:00 | 3h 45m | 150 | 196 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 89 min | 0.94 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county