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2019 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 5,388 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 91 Kansas counties and 1374th 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 Rush 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 | July 6, 2019 01:15 | July 6, 2019 06:15 | 5h | 306 | 729 |
| 2 | July 31, 2019 23:00 | August 1, 2019 15:30 | 16h 30m | 181 | 2,425 |
| 3 | April 29, 2019 03:00 | April 29, 2019 15:15 | 12h 15m | 142 | 716 |
| 4 | April 9, 2019 17:00 | April 9, 2019 17:30 | 30m | 137 | 69 |
| 5 | April 29, 2019 22:00 | April 29, 2019 22:45 | 45m | 137 | 103 |
| 6 | January 5, 2019 01:30 | January 5, 2019 04:15 | 2h 45m | 101 | 107 |
| 7 | March 14, 2019 02:00 | March 14, 2019 04:30 | 2h 30m | 88 | 219 |
| 8 | August 2, 2019 12:45 | August 2, 2019 14:45 | 2h | 72 | 90 |
| 9 | August 3, 2019 17:30 | August 3, 2019 19:15 | 1h 45m | 71 | 107 |
| 10 | August 15, 2019 17:30 | August 15, 2019 19:30 | 2h | 60 | 120 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 6 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county