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2018 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 3,793 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 2125th 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 Rice 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 | December 10, 2018 00:15 | December 10, 2018 00:30 | 15m | 405 | 101 |
| 2 | May 19, 2018 14:45 | May 19, 2018 17:15 | 2h 30m | 404 | 908 |
| 3 | July 31, 2018 11:00 | July 31, 2018 13:15 | 2h 15m | 370 | 463 |
| 4 | July 30, 2018 20:45 | July 30, 2018 21:15 | 30m | 232 | 59 |
| 5 | July 29, 2018 07:30 | July 30, 2018 01:00 | 17h 30m | 188 | 993 |
| 6 | February 20, 2018 14:15 | February 20, 2018 15:30 | 1h 15m | 120 | 150 |
| 7 | October 11, 2018 19:15 | October 11, 2018 20:00 | 45m | 118 | 89 |
| 8 | February 23, 2018 16:30 | February 23, 2018 17:45 | 1h 15m | 67 | 75 |
| 9 | April 14, 2018 23:00 | April 15, 2018 00:15 | 1h 15m | 63 | 63 |
| 10 | November 2, 2018 21:15 | November 2, 2018 21:45 | 30m | 41 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 Rice 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county