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2019 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 967th 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 Rice 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 13, 2019 17:30 | March 14, 2019 07:00 | 13h 30m | 1,381 | 1,528 |
| 2 | March 12, 2019 22:15 | March 13, 2019 00:15 | 2h | 633 | 591 |
| 3 | May 26, 2019 13:30 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 42d 12h | 490 | 6,368 |
| 4 | October 26, 2019 17:00 | October 26, 2019 18:45 | 1h 45m | 361 | 480 |
| 5 | May 8, 2019 01:45 | May 8, 2019 10:15 | 8h 30m | 229 | 138 |
| 6 | January 12, 2019 16:45 | January 13, 2019 03:30 | 10h 45m | 213 | 645 |
| 7 | March 14, 2019 11:45 | March 14, 2019 14:00 | 2h 15m | 212 | 425 |
| 8 | March 15, 2019 06:15 | March 15, 2019 06:45 | 30m | 209 | 53 |
| 9 | May 26, 2019 01:45 | May 26, 2019 09:15 | 7h 30m | 180 | 300 |
| 10 | August 16, 2019 16:45 | August 16, 2019 20:30 | 3h 45m | 124 | 82 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county