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2019 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 8,245 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 1014th 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 Elk 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 | April 27, 2019 12:30 | April 27, 2019 15:00 | 2h 30m | 498 | 1,027 |
| 2 | July 10, 2019 15:30 | July 10, 2019 20:45 | 5h 15m | 433 | 1,305 |
| 3 | May 24, 2019 21:15 | May 28, 2019 14:00 | 3d 16h | 341 | 1,001 |
| 4 | February 23, 2019 18:30 | February 23, 2019 22:30 | 4h | 247 | 311 |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 16:45 | May 31, 2019 23:30 | 6h 45m | 228 | 276 |
| 6 | April 30, 2019 21:30 | May 1, 2019 03:45 | 6h 15m | 148 | 544 |
| 7 | June 26, 2019 06:15 | June 26, 2019 09:45 | 3h 30m | 118 | 207 |
| 8 | September 14, 2019 16:00 | September 14, 2019 19:30 | 3h 30m | 108 | 355 |
| 9 | May 30, 2019 19:45 | May 30, 2019 21:15 | 1h 30m | 107 | 161 |
| 10 | October 5, 2019 15:15 | October 5, 2019 19:30 | 4h 15m | 67 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 9 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El 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 74% of Kansas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county