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2018 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 748th 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 Elk 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 | April 21, 2018 17:15 | April 21, 2018 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1,219 | 2,588 |
| 2 | January 16, 2018 10:45 | January 16, 2018 16:15 | 5h 30m | 856 | 4,474 |
| 3 | March 26, 2018 14:45 | March 26, 2018 16:15 | 1h 30m | 304 | 171 |
| 4 | June 24, 2018 03:30 | June 24, 2018 04:15 | 45m | 232 | 174 |
| 5 | May 15, 2018 04:00 | May 15, 2018 06:45 | 2h 45m | 149 | 40 |
| 6 | August 1, 2018 18:15 | August 1, 2018 20:45 | 2h 30m | 144 | 305 |
| 7 | September 14, 2018 03:15 | September 14, 2018 09:30 | 6h 15m | 139 | 860 |
| 8 | June 27, 2018 00:30 | June 28, 2018 17:00 | 1d 16h | 93 | 1,396 |
| 9 | August 17, 2018 05:15 | August 17, 2018 06:30 | 1h 15m | 74 | 93 |
| 10 | November 25, 2018 17:45 | November 25, 2018 23:00 | 5h 15m | 29 | 101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county