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2017 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 4,986 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 80 Kansas counties and 2468th 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 McPherson 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 | April 7, 2017 07:15 | April 7, 2017 09:30 | 2h 15m | 796 | 1,791 |
| 2 | June 21, 2017 15:15 | June 21, 2017 19:30 | 4h 15m | 715 | 1,209 |
| 3 | February 23, 2017 16:15 | February 23, 2017 17:45 | 1h 30m | 91 | 114 |
| 4 | June 27, 2017 00:00 | June 27, 2017 01:00 | 1h | 88 | 88 |
| 5 | December 2, 2017 19:00 | December 2, 2017 21:00 | 2h | 88 | 176 |
| 6 | September 15, 2017 12:30 | September 15, 2017 15:00 | 2h 30m | 84 | 210 |
| 7 | June 15, 2017 22:00 | June 16, 2017 21:45 | 23h 45m | 83 | 441 |
| 8 | September 12, 2017 20:15 | September 12, 2017 22:15 | 2h | 47 | 94 |
| 9 | September 15, 2017 17:00 | September 15, 2017 20:15 | 3h 15m | 41 | 43 |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 17:00 | December 13, 2017 18:00 | 1h | 40 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2017 | 23.4 hrs | 2.41 | 3.1 hrs | 1.54 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2017 | 9 min | 0.09 | 8 min | - |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2017 | 17 min | 0.66 | 17 min | 0.66 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county