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2018 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1157th 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 Riley 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 | August 12, 2018 13:45 | August 12, 2018 17:30 | 3h 45m | 3,317 | 1,339 |
| 2 | September 3, 2018 04:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 11d 17h | 1,920 | 47K |
| 3 | June 2, 2018 08:15 | June 2, 2018 19:00 | 10h 45m | 1,641 | 709 |
| 4 | July 19, 2018 18:00 | July 20, 2018 04:30 | 10h 30m | 1,552 | 3,801 |
| 5 | July 14, 2018 12:45 | July 14, 2018 15:45 | 3h | 1,479 | 1,487 |
| 6 | May 4, 2018 13:00 | May 4, 2018 16:45 | 3h 45m | 942 | 523 |
| 7 | October 20, 2018 07:15 | October 20, 2018 10:00 | 2h 45m | 296 | 559 |
| 8 | June 26, 2018 12:30 | June 26, 2018 13:15 | 45m | 294 | 177 |
| 9 | June 18, 2018 05:30 | June 18, 2018 10:45 | 5h 15m | 253 | 1,324 |
| 10 | May 7, 2018 16:45 | May 7, 2018 17:00 | 15m | 192 | 48 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county