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2017 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 35.7 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 133rd 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 Rice 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 24, 2017 09:45 | May 24, 2017 13:30 | 3h 45m | 4,324 | 8,649 |
| 2 | April 16, 2017 15:30 | April 16, 2017 17:30 | 2h | 3,965 | 4,957 |
| 3 | June 17, 2017 06:15 | June 17, 2017 19:30 | 13h 15m | 2,451 | 3,411 |
| 4 | September 29, 2017 21:45 | September 29, 2017 23:15 | 1h 30m | 2,412 | 1,907 |
| 5 | May 18, 2017 22:00 | May 19, 2017 02:30 | 4h 30m | 2,116 | 3,193 |
| 6 | January 16, 2017 03:00 | January 22, 2017 19:45 | 6d 16h | 1,880 | 49K |
| 7 | May 23, 2017 00:30 | May 23, 2017 03:30 | 3h | 1,749 | 1,850 |
| 8 | April 22, 2017 08:15 | April 22, 2017 11:00 | 2h 45m | 875 | 1,669 |
| 9 | October 7, 2017 00:00 | October 7, 2017 02:15 | 2h 15m | 853 | 969 |
| 10 | May 18, 2017 14:30 | May 18, 2017 21:15 | 6h 45m | 852 | 752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 39 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county