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2018 Chase County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Chase County, KS went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 2,739 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1270th 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 Chase 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 | February 22, 2018 07:15 | February 22, 2018 10:45 | 3h 30m | 378 | 1,229 |
| 2 | March 5, 2018 11:15 | March 5, 2018 14:45 | 3h 30m | 318 | 481 |
| 3 | March 6, 2018 15:00 | March 6, 2018 16:45 | 1h 45m | 318 | 240 |
| 4 | June 21, 2018 19:15 | June 21, 2018 19:30 | 15m | 50 | 13 |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 14:15 | February 20, 2018 16:45 | 2h 30m | 49 | 122 |
| 6 | March 19, 2018 12:15 | March 19, 2018 12:30 | 15m | 48 | 12 |
| 7 | September 3, 2018 14:45 | September 3, 2018 16:00 | 1h 15m | 26 | 33 |
| 8 | August 2, 2018 07:00 | August 2, 2018 13:30 | 6h 30m | 21 | 137 |
| 9 | June 22, 2018 15:15 | June 22, 2018 20:15 | 5h | 19 | 61 |
| 10 | April 30, 2018 23:15 | May 1, 2018 02:15 | 3h | 12 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 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 Chase 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 699 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. Chase County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chase 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/chase-county