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2018 Ottawa County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ottawa County, KS went without power for an average of 13.6 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 415th 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 Ottawa 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 | October 19, 2018 02:45 | October 19, 2018 15:00 | 12h 15m | 757 | 7,152 |
| 2 | May 2, 2018 01:15 | May 2, 2018 20:00 | 18h 45m | 403 | 5,721 |
| 3 | November 25, 2018 12:00 | November 25, 2018 20:45 | 8h 45m | 325 | 2,101 |
| 4 | July 31, 2018 20:00 | July 31, 2018 21:30 | 1h 30m | 324 | 169 |
| 5 | April 27, 2018 04:15 | April 27, 2018 05:45 | 1h 30m | 289 | 434 |
| 6 | June 29, 2018 06:45 | June 29, 2018 08:45 | 2h | 266 | 532 |
| 7 | November 2, 2018 00:15 | November 2, 2018 02:15 | 2h | 210 | 166 |
| 8 | August 12, 2018 12:45 | August 12, 2018 13:30 | 45m | 209 | 157 |
| 9 | May 21, 2018 15:00 | May 21, 2018 18:45 | 3h 45m | 141 | 490 |
| 10 | September 2, 2018 22:15 | September 3, 2018 17:15 | 19h | 96 | 1,152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 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 Ottawa 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Minneapolis - (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 ÷ 1,406 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. Ottawa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ottawa 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/ottawa-county