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2018 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 3,479 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1662nd 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 Rush 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 21, 2018 05:00 | July 21, 2018 09:15 | 4h 15m | 319 | 720 |
| 2 | October 19, 2018 02:15 | October 19, 2018 04:45 | 2h 30m | 311 | 731 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 15:45 | July 4, 2018 16:45 | 1h | 302 | 246 |
| 4 | November 25, 2018 10:30 | November 27, 2018 15:30 | 2d 5h | 105 | 798 |
| 5 | May 29, 2018 06:30 | May 30, 2018 19:45 | 1d 13h | 63 | 159 |
| 6 | July 27, 2018 12:15 | July 27, 2018 16:00 | 3h 45m | 60 | 48 |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 02:00 | June 23, 2018 07:15 | 5h 15m | 36 | 100 |
| 8 | July 27, 2018 22:30 | July 28, 2018 12:45 | 14h 15m | 29 | 64 |
| 9 | January 22, 2018 15:15 | January 22, 2018 15:45 | 30m | 28 | 14 |
| 10 | September 10, 2018 15:15 | September 10, 2018 16:00 | 45m | 28 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county