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2018 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2153rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 25, 2018 16:15 | November 26, 2018 03:30 | 11h 15m | 1,540 | 1,525 |
| 2 | June 21, 2018 23:00 | June 21, 2018 23:30 | 30m | 1,471 | 736 |
| 3 | February 20, 2018 12:15 | February 20, 2018 21:15 | 9h | 1,269 | 7,714 |
| 4 | June 24, 2018 10:00 | June 24, 2018 20:30 | 10h 30m | 979 | 2,701 |
| 5 | December 1, 2018 03:45 | December 1, 2018 13:45 | 10h | 854 | 2,800 |
| 6 | June 30, 2018 17:45 | July 1, 2018 03:15 | 9h 30m | 850 | 1,188 |
| 7 | April 30, 2018 14:45 | April 30, 2018 22:45 | 8h | 832 | 1,841 |
| 8 | August 20, 2018 13:30 | August 20, 2018 15:45 | 2h 15m | 818 | 604 |
| 9 | April 21, 2018 07:45 | April 21, 2018 23:00 | 15h 15m | 809 | 1,048 |
| 10 | October 4, 2018 05:00 | October 4, 2018 09:30 | 4h 30m | 717 | 1,172 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 45 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.00 | 72 min | 0.78 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.16 | 1.5 hrs | 0.91 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 71% of Kansas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/kansas/butler-county