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2019 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2456th 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 McPherson 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 | March 12, 2019 22:15 | March 13, 2019 00:15 | 2h | 634 | 595 |
| 2 | May 27, 2019 06:15 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 41d 20h | 476 | 6,807 |
| 3 | March 13, 2019 15:45 | March 14, 2019 17:00 | 1d 1h | 472 | 942 |
| 4 | May 26, 2019 01:00 | May 26, 2019 18:45 | 17h 45m | 409 | 764 |
| 5 | September 22, 2019 03:15 | September 22, 2019 04:45 | 1h 30m | 404 | 204 |
| 6 | July 29, 2019 03:30 | July 29, 2019 07:30 | 4h | 331 | 467 |
| 7 | August 6, 2019 07:30 | August 6, 2019 12:00 | 4h 30m | 316 | 952 |
| 8 | August 6, 2019 12:45 | August 9, 2019 22:45 | 3d 10h | 299 | 2,586 |
| 9 | May 7, 2019 20:00 | May 8, 2019 10:45 | 14h 45m | 287 | 589 |
| 10 | May 14, 2019 03:15 | May 14, 2019 04:00 | 45m | 273 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2018 | 15 min | 0.16 | 15 min | - |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county