County annual report · FIPS 20017
2019 Chase County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chase County, KS went without power for an average of 96.1 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 91 Kansas counties and 26th 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 Chase 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 | August 30, 2019 06:00 | September 1, 2019 03:15 | 1d 21h | 3,591 | 33K |
| 2 | May 18, 2019 16:00 | May 19, 2019 14:00 | 22h | 1,724 | 7,458 |
| 3 | December 1, 2019 14:15 | December 1, 2019 17:45 | 3h 30m | 1,038 | 3,362 |
| 4 | December 28, 2019 16:00 | December 28, 2019 23:15 | 7h 15m | 701 | 2,782 |
| 5 | September 12, 2019 14:00 | September 13, 2019 05:00 | 15h | 699 | 360 |
| 6 | May 14, 2019 22:45 | May 15, 2019 08:15 | 9h 30m | 678 | 1,210 |
| 7 | May 27, 2019 07:00 | May 27, 2019 10:15 | 3h 15m | 654 | 981 |
| 8 | June 4, 2019 20:15 | June 4, 2019 23:30 | 3h 15m | 403 | 252 |
| 9 | November 5, 2019 06:15 | November 5, 2019 12:30 | 6h 15m | 338 | 2,113 |
| 10 | August 21, 2019 06:30 | August 21, 2019 21:15 | 14h 45m | 251 | 616 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 28 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chase 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 699 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. Chase County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chase 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/chase-county