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2018 Lincoln County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, KS went without power for an average of 11.2 hours, a total of 9,479 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 494th 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 Lincoln 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 | May 2, 2018 01:15 | May 2, 2018 16:15 | 15h | 287 | 4,020 |
| 2 | April 27, 2018 04:15 | April 27, 2018 05:45 | 1h 30m | 286 | 429 |
| 3 | September 2, 2018 23:30 | September 4, 2018 15:15 | 1d 15h | 282 | 3,291 |
| 4 | November 2, 2018 00:15 | November 2, 2018 03:00 | 2h 45m | 281 | 484 |
| 5 | June 2, 2018 09:45 | June 2, 2018 13:30 | 3h 45m | 178 | 625 |
| 6 | July 31, 2018 20:00 | July 31, 2018 20:30 | 30m | 176 | 88 |
| 7 | September 14, 2018 20:45 | September 14, 2018 21:00 | 15m | 176 | 44 |
| 8 | November 25, 2018 14:00 | November 25, 2018 16:00 | 2h | 174 | 348 |
| 9 | August 19, 2018 16:00 | August 19, 2018 18:00 | 2h | 27 | 45 |
| 10 | January 9, 2018 16:30 | January 9, 2018 18:45 | 2h 15m | 11 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 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 Lincoln 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 Kansas Central, Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.16 | 1.5 hrs | 0.91 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincoln 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 ÷ 848 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county