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2020 Clay County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, KS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 5,049 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2715th 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 Clay 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 | August 9, 2020 10:15 | August 9, 2020 13:30 | 3h 15m | 680 | 2,129 |
| 2 | August 17, 2020 02:15 | August 17, 2020 06:30 | 4h 15m | 564 | 1,201 |
| 3 | July 29, 2020 22:15 | July 30, 2020 03:45 | 5h 30m | 154 | 847 |
| 4 | July 26, 2020 04:30 | July 26, 2020 06:30 | 2h | 144 | 201 |
| 5 | July 13, 2020 04:00 | July 13, 2020 06:00 | 2h | 31 | 62 |
| 6 | November 22, 2020 12:00 | November 22, 2020 16:15 | 4h 15m | 31 | 31 |
| 7 | August 9, 2020 15:45 | August 9, 2020 21:15 | 5h 30m | 20 | 109 |
| 8 | December 9, 2020 23:15 | December 9, 2020 23:30 | 15m | 20 | 5 |
| 9 | July 18, 2020 05:30 | July 18, 2020 06:45 | 1h 15m | 17 | 18 |
| 10 | November 17, 2020 21:45 | November 17, 2020 22:15 | 30m | 16 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Clay 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Clay Center - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county