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2020 Chase County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chase County, KS went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 2,976 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1553rd 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 Chase 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 | January 10, 2020 21:00 | January 10, 2020 23:00 | 2h | 704 | 1,070 |
| 2 | December 1, 2020 11:45 | December 1, 2020 13:30 | 1h 45m | 320 | 560 |
| 3 | October 22, 2020 15:30 | October 22, 2020 17:45 | 2h 15m | 60 | 78 |
| 4 | October 17, 2020 15:45 | October 17, 2020 21:45 | 6h | 59 | 218 |
| 5 | March 8, 2020 11:45 | March 8, 2020 13:45 | 2h | 49 | 78 |
| 6 | August 30, 2020 15:15 | August 30, 2020 17:00 | 1h 45m | 49 | 86 |
| 7 | August 12, 2020 16:00 | August 12, 2020 17:30 | 1h 30m | 44 | 66 |
| 8 | March 19, 2020 12:15 | March 19, 2020 14:15 | 2h | 35 | 68 |
| 9 | April 27, 2020 18:15 | April 27, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 26 | 13 |
| 10 | August 9, 2020 21:15 | August 10, 2020 00:30 | 3h 15m | 21 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 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 Chase 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 699 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. Chase County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chase 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/chase-county