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2018 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,693 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2677th 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 McPherson 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 | July 29, 2018 08:00 | July 29, 2018 20:00 | 12h | 118 | 295 |
| 2 | July 16, 2018 17:30 | July 16, 2018 19:00 | 1h 30m | 105 | 54 |
| 3 | August 11, 2018 18:00 | August 11, 2018 21:15 | 3h 15m | 104 | 219 |
| 4 | March 5, 2018 18:45 | March 5, 2018 19:45 | 1h | 89 | 89 |
| 5 | August 19, 2018 18:30 | August 19, 2018 21:15 | 2h 45m | 89 | 245 |
| 6 | July 6, 2018 19:30 | July 6, 2018 20:00 | 30m | 84 | 42 |
| 7 | July 16, 2018 09:45 | July 16, 2018 13:15 | 3h 30m | 30 | 32 |
| 8 | January 22, 2018 22:15 | January 22, 2018 23:15 | 1h | 28 | 14 |
| 9 | March 6, 2018 16:00 | March 6, 2018 19:30 | 3h 30m | 27 | 44 |
| 10 | June 12, 2018 17:15 | June 12, 2018 17:45 | 30m | 27 | 14 |
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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2018 | 15 min | 0.16 | 15 min | - |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county