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2018 Russell County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Russell County, KS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1902nd 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 Russell 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 25, 2018 20:15 | October 25, 2018 22:30 | 2h 15m | 616 | 1,232 |
| 2 | November 25, 2018 11:15 | November 27, 2018 22:00 | 2d 10h | 606 | 7,985 |
| 3 | May 17, 2018 21:00 | May 17, 2018 22:00 | 1h | 139 | 95 |
| 4 | January 22, 2018 10:30 | January 23, 2018 00:15 | 13h 45m | 117 | 334 |
| 5 | March 29, 2018 22:30 | March 30, 2018 00:30 | 2h | 94 | 142 |
| 6 | July 29, 2018 12:45 | July 29, 2018 19:00 | 6h 15m | 86 | 207 |
| 7 | April 16, 2018 17:30 | April 16, 2018 19:30 | 2h | 72 | 82 |
| 8 | December 1, 2018 11:30 | December 1, 2018 17:15 | 5h 45m | 70 | 403 |
| 9 | February 12, 2018 04:00 | February 12, 2018 08:00 | 4h | 64 | 99 |
| 10 | February 25, 2018 08:30 | February 25, 2018 09:15 | 45m | 44 | 33 |
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 Russell 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lucas- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Luray - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russell - (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 ÷ 5,948 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county