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2019 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2399th 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 Cowley 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 | December 26, 2019 18:15 | December 26, 2019 20:30 | 2h 15m | 3,357 | 3,983 |
| 2 | November 26, 2019 23:45 | December 5, 2019 20:45 | 8d 21h | 958 | 3,825 |
| 3 | August 19, 2019 19:00 | August 19, 2019 21:00 | 2h | 613 | 397 |
| 4 | March 13, 2019 12:15 | March 13, 2019 16:15 | 4h | 445 | 595 |
| 5 | May 24, 2019 19:00 | May 28, 2019 14:30 | 3d 19h | 364 | 2,603 |
| 6 | May 20, 2019 15:45 | May 22, 2019 09:00 | 1d 17h | 334 | 1,339 |
| 7 | March 8, 2019 16:30 | March 8, 2019 23:15 | 6h 45m | 319 | 478 |
| 8 | June 4, 2019 05:00 | June 4, 2019 07:30 | 2h 30m | 318 | 795 |
| 9 | September 12, 2019 21:00 | September 13, 2019 05:30 | 8h 30m | 268 | 336 |
| 10 | June 23, 2019 00:15 | June 24, 2019 08:30 | 1d 8h | 258 | 916 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 20 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county