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2019 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2203rd 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 Riley 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 19, 2019 04:15 | December 19, 2019 06:30 | 2h 15m | 1,767 | 2,677 |
| 2 | July 10, 2019 11:30 | July 11, 2019 03:30 | 16h | 1,277 | 3,055 |
| 3 | June 28, 2019 08:30 | June 28, 2019 10:00 | 1h 30m | 1,083 | 813 |
| 4 | May 19, 2019 03:15 | May 19, 2019 08:00 | 4h 45m | 1,049 | 1,323 |
| 5 | August 18, 2019 11:45 | August 18, 2019 13:30 | 1h 45m | 952 | 717 |
| 6 | August 17, 2019 05:30 | August 18, 2019 00:15 | 18h 45m | 686 | 3,457 |
| 7 | August 16, 2019 01:00 | August 16, 2019 05:45 | 4h 45m | 679 | 652 |
| 8 | March 18, 2019 14:00 | March 18, 2019 21:15 | 7h 15m | 371 | 250 |
| 9 | February 1, 2019 18:30 | February 1, 2019 20:00 | 1h 30m | 329 | 210 |
| 10 | August 30, 2019 05:00 | August 30, 2019 21:45 | 16h 45m | 316 | 1,315 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 31 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop 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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county