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2017 Russell County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Russell County, KS went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 80 Kansas counties and 1140th 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 Russell 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 16, 2017 08:00 | January 22, 2017 16:30 | 6d 8h | 552 | 15K |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 01:45 | May 17, 2017 08:00 | 6h 15m | 459 | 2,088 |
| 3 | June 8, 2017 13:45 | June 8, 2017 16:45 | 3h | 458 | 1,255 |
| 4 | May 26, 2017 02:30 | May 26, 2017 17:00 | 14h 30m | 344 | 2,503 |
| 5 | March 7, 2017 19:30 | March 7, 2017 21:45 | 2h 15m | 251 | 440 |
| 6 | April 13, 2017 14:30 | April 13, 2017 16:30 | 2h | 220 | 440 |
| 7 | March 23, 2017 22:30 | March 24, 2017 00:30 | 2h | 92 | 184 |
| 8 | June 11, 2017 14:00 | June 11, 2017 17:00 | 3h | 92 | 127 |
| 9 | March 30, 2017 17:45 | March 30, 2017 21:30 | 3h 45m | 58 | 130 |
| 10 | October 30, 2017 02:30 | October 30, 2017 03:15 | 45m | 44 | 12 |
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 Russell 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lucas- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Luray - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russell - (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 ÷ 5,948 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county