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2020 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2772nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2020
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 15, 2020 05:30 | May 15, 2020 21:30 | 16h | 1,027 | 1,462 |
| 2 | April 24, 2020 12:45 | April 24, 2020 22:45 | 10h | 1,012 | 513 |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 11:00 | May 17, 2020 13:00 | 2h | 990 | 748 |
| 4 | September 10, 2020 17:30 | September 10, 2020 22:15 | 4h 45m | 818 | 1,275 |
| 5 | October 22, 2020 08:45 | October 22, 2020 18:15 | 9h 30m | 789 | 1,420 |
| 6 | September 24, 2020 19:30 | September 24, 2020 20:45 | 1h 15m | 620 | 734 |
| 7 | December 25, 2020 05:45 | December 25, 2020 09:15 | 3h 30m | 561 | 964 |
| 8 | March 8, 2020 15:30 | March 8, 2020 18:15 | 2h 45m | 553 | 560 |
| 9 | July 10, 2020 04:45 | July 10, 2020 07:30 | 2h 45m | 467 | 935 |
| 10 | May 14, 2020 02:15 | May 14, 2020 05:45 | 3h 30m | 390 | 836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.5 hrs | 0.84 | 72 min | 0.76 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2020 | 86 min | 0.89 | 86 min | 0.89 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 79% of Kansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/kansas/butler-county