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2017 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 790th 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 Elk 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 16, 2017 20:15 | September 17, 2017 09:00 | 12h 45m | 1,083 | 5,406 |
| 2 | May 7, 2017 11:45 | May 7, 2017 17:30 | 5h 45m | 301 | 1,731 |
| 3 | April 11, 2017 13:30 | April 11, 2017 19:45 | 6h 15m | 145 | 906 |
| 4 | August 6, 2017 01:00 | August 6, 2017 06:45 | 5h 45m | 143 | 211 |
| 5 | August 16, 2017 21:45 | August 17, 2017 01:45 | 4h | 96 | 373 |
| 6 | October 6, 2017 13:00 | October 6, 2017 16:15 | 3h 15m | 86 | 279 |
| 7 | October 7, 2017 07:00 | October 7, 2017 08:45 | 1h 45m | 86 | 129 |
| 8 | June 13, 2017 19:15 | June 13, 2017 23:00 | 3h 45m | 84 | 294 |
| 9 | June 18, 2017 04:00 | June 18, 2017 08:45 | 4h 45m | 78 | 81 |
| 10 | September 11, 2017 20:00 | September 11, 2017 20:30 | 30m | 77 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county