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2018 Clay County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clay County, KS went without power for an average of 33.8 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 83 Kansas counties and 173rd 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 Clay 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 | January 2, 2018 16:30 | January 3, 2018 05:45 | 13h 15m | 9,928 | 9,145 |
| 2 | June 2, 2018 09:00 | June 5, 2018 01:45 | 2d 16h | 8,541 | 53K |
| 3 | February 8, 2018 17:00 | February 8, 2018 17:45 | 45m | 6,538 | 3,272 |
| 4 | August 19, 2018 20:15 | August 21, 2018 06:45 | 1d 10h | 2,391 | 4,500 |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 17:45 | June 2, 2018 04:00 | 10h 15m | 2,153 | 2,955 |
| 6 | May 31, 2018 23:15 | June 1, 2018 00:15 | 1h | 2,147 | 1,979 |
| 7 | November 11, 2018 14:30 | November 11, 2018 16:15 | 1h 45m | 2,008 | 511 |
| 8 | October 26, 2018 01:45 | October 26, 2018 05:00 | 3h 15m | 1,945 | 2,474 |
| 9 | April 24, 2018 23:45 | April 25, 2018 02:00 | 2h 15m | 1,763 | 1,345 |
| 10 | April 28, 2018 12:15 | April 28, 2018 18:45 | 6h 30m | 1,713 | 1,730 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 138 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Clay 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Clay Center - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county