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2019 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 1565th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 19, 2019 00:30 | January 20, 2019 02:15 | 1d 1h | 5,893 | 28K |
| 2 | January 22, 2019 13:45 | January 23, 2019 13:30 | 23h 45m | 4,127 | 3,132 |
| 3 | August 17, 2019 10:45 | August 17, 2019 20:00 | 9h 15m | 2,686 | 779 |
| 4 | June 22, 2019 04:30 | June 25, 2019 03:30 | 2d 23h | 1,695 | 20K |
| 5 | November 28, 2019 00:15 | November 28, 2019 01:15 | 1h | 1,330 | 335 |
| 6 | May 24, 2019 09:30 | May 29, 2019 05:30 | 4d 20h | 1,297 | 7,415 |
| 7 | October 10, 2019 07:15 | October 11, 2019 09:15 | 1d 2h | 866 | 3,320 |
| 8 | August 30, 2019 06:00 | August 31, 2019 11:45 | 1d 5h | 856 | 4,880 |
| 9 | October 2, 2019 00:00 | October 2, 2019 15:30 | 15h 30m | 837 | 6,812 |
| 10 | June 18, 2019 21:15 | June 19, 2019 22:30 | 1d 1h | 811 | 1,807 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 47 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 74% of Kansas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/kansas/butler-county