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2018 Jackson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jackson County, KS went without power for an average of 217.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 83 Kansas counties and 21st 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 Jackson 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 | June 2, 2018 06:15 | June 5, 2018 04:30 | 2d 22h | 50,275 | 624K |
| 2 | June 26, 2018 12:15 | June 28, 2018 09:00 | 1d 20h | 17,190 | 79K |
| 3 | August 25, 2018 14:45 | August 31, 2018 05:00 | 5d 14h | 15,858 | 141K |
| 4 | May 1, 2018 08:30 | May 5, 2018 05:15 | 3d 20h | 8,000 | 38K |
| 5 | June 17, 2018 12:00 | June 20, 2018 04:30 | 2d 16h | 6,945 | 15K |
| 6 | July 14, 2018 12:15 | July 16, 2018 11:30 | 1d 23h | 6,593 | 26K |
| 7 | October 6, 2018 08:30 | October 11, 2018 08:45 | 5d | 6,355 | 50K |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 11:15 | July 3, 2018 02:00 | 14h 45m | 5,682 | 13K |
| 9 | November 30, 2018 14:45 | December 2, 2018 10:30 | 1d 19h | 5,392 | 9,763 |
| 10 | August 7, 2018 04:30 | August 8, 2018 02:15 | 21h 45m | 5,276 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 208 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Jackson 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 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Nemaha-Marshall E C A, Inc | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brown-Atchison E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holton - (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 ÷ 6,676 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county