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2020 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2424th 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 Cowley 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 | October 27, 2020 14:30 | October 30, 2020 05:45 | 2d 15h | 7,841 | 15K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 17:30 | July 21, 2020 21:15 | 3h 45m | 2,384 | 4,775 |
| 3 | July 15, 2020 13:00 | July 15, 2020 18:45 | 5h 45m | 1,019 | 273 |
| 4 | March 11, 2020 20:45 | March 12, 2020 00:15 | 3h 30m | 1,001 | 1,487 |
| 5 | November 14, 2020 17:00 | November 14, 2020 21:15 | 4h 15m | 952 | 728 |
| 6 | July 10, 2020 13:15 | July 10, 2020 22:00 | 8h 45m | 943 | 763 |
| 7 | February 29, 2020 21:00 | February 29, 2020 22:15 | 1h 15m | 777 | 971 |
| 8 | January 9, 2020 04:15 | January 9, 2020 09:15 | 5h | 509 | 2,392 |
| 9 | April 9, 2020 14:30 | April 9, 2020 15:00 | 30m | 325 | 163 |
| 10 | July 12, 2020 02:00 | July 12, 2020 03:15 | 1h 15m | 296 | 370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2020 | 86 min | 0.89 | 86 min | 0.89 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county