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2018 Saline County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Saline County, KS went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 83 Kansas counties and 1520th 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 Saline 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 00:30 | October 25, 2018 11:15 | 10h 45m | 3,213 | 1,689 |
| 2 | November 25, 2018 13:45 | November 26, 2018 21:15 | 1d 7h | 2,853 | 7,948 |
| 3 | September 23, 2018 12:00 | September 23, 2018 13:45 | 1h 45m | 2,500 | 4,128 |
| 4 | December 1, 2018 06:00 | December 1, 2018 07:15 | 1h 15m | 2,499 | 2,877 |
| 5 | April 13, 2018 04:45 | April 13, 2018 06:30 | 1h 45m | 1,956 | 1,476 |
| 6 | October 7, 2018 10:00 | October 7, 2018 12:00 | 2h | 1,183 | 1,185 |
| 7 | July 27, 2018 10:15 | July 27, 2018 14:00 | 3h 45m | 968 | 246 |
| 8 | July 13, 2018 20:15 | July 14, 2018 05:30 | 9h 15m | 954 | 980 |
| 9 | October 23, 2018 13:45 | October 23, 2018 22:15 | 8h 30m | 807 | 290 |
| 10 | July 16, 2018 05:15 | July 16, 2018 10:00 | 4h 45m | 665 | 685 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 45 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Saline 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, 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 ÷ 14,835 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. Saline County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saline 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/saline-county