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2017 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 80 Kansas counties and 342nd 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 Rush 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 | January 15, 2017 19:30 | January 22, 2017 00:30 | 6d 5h | 570 | 19K |
| 2 | July 16, 2017 22:30 | July 17, 2017 00:45 | 2h 15m | 322 | 99 |
| 3 | May 16, 2017 23:45 | May 17, 2017 07:00 | 7h 15m | 309 | 1,026 |
| 4 | June 25, 2017 22:30 | June 26, 2017 00:00 | 1h 30m | 299 | 193 |
| 5 | May 16, 2017 03:30 | May 16, 2017 09:30 | 6h | 125 | 422 |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 18, 2017 03:45 | 9h | 102 | 266 |
| 7 | March 13, 2017 01:30 | March 13, 2017 04:45 | 3h 15m | 87 | 252 |
| 8 | May 11, 2017 07:00 | May 11, 2017 14:00 | 7h | 73 | 139 |
| 9 | May 10, 2017 19:45 | May 10, 2017 23:00 | 3h 15m | 68 | 221 |
| 10 | January 23, 2017 16:30 | January 25, 2017 20:30 | 2d 4h | 56 | 158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2017 | 23.4 hrs | 2.41 | 3.1 hrs | 1.54 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county