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2019 Ottawa County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ottawa County, KS went without power for an average of 22.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 91 Kansas counties and 188th 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 Ottawa 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 | May 27, 2019 06:30 | May 28, 2019 05:30 | 23h | 2,990 | 12K |
| 2 | August 30, 2019 04:15 | August 31, 2019 03:00 | 22h 45m | 1,905 | 4,360 |
| 3 | April 19, 2019 00:00 | April 19, 2019 01:15 | 1h 15m | 1,247 | 625 |
| 4 | June 9, 2019 05:45 | June 9, 2019 07:30 | 1h 45m | 543 | 353 |
| 5 | August 26, 2019 15:00 | August 26, 2019 21:45 | 6h 45m | 429 | 334 |
| 6 | May 20, 2019 16:30 | May 20, 2019 21:30 | 5h | 420 | 363 |
| 7 | June 2, 2019 22:15 | June 3, 2019 08:30 | 10h 15m | 382 | 303 |
| 8 | August 25, 2019 03:00 | August 25, 2019 17:30 | 14h 30m | 349 | 1,373 |
| 9 | August 8, 2019 07:15 | August 8, 2019 19:45 | 12h 30m | 228 | 446 |
| 10 | May 21, 2019 20:15 | May 22, 2019 01:00 | 4h 45m | 223 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 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 Ottawa 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Minneapolis - (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 ÷ 1,406 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. Ottawa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ottawa 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/ottawa-county