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2019 Russell County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Russell County, KS went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 5,016 customer-hours (Kansas average 3.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 91 Kansas counties and 2558th 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 Russell 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 | September 21, 2019 18:45 | September 21, 2019 19:30 | 45m | 788 | 297 |
| 2 | May 27, 2019 05:30 | May 27, 2019 10:30 | 5h | 414 | 1,722 |
| 3 | August 1, 2019 00:45 | August 1, 2019 05:15 | 4h 30m | 343 | 696 |
| 4 | August 14, 2019 03:00 | August 14, 2019 11:00 | 8h | 249 | 639 |
| 5 | December 1, 2019 20:15 | December 1, 2019 23:15 | 3h | 247 | 188 |
| 6 | July 6, 2019 02:15 | July 6, 2019 05:30 | 3h 15m | 107 | 321 |
| 7 | February 4, 2019 20:15 | February 4, 2019 20:30 | 15m | 83 | 21 |
| 8 | May 8, 2019 01:45 | May 8, 2019 04:15 | 2h 30m | 71 | 178 |
| 9 | June 9, 2019 07:15 | June 9, 2019 14:00 | 6h 45m | 58 | 167 |
| 10 | May 20, 2019 13:45 | May 20, 2019 18:00 | 4h 15m | 54 | 216 |
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 Russell 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lucas- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Luray - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russell - (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 ÷ 5,948 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county