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2020 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 2,686 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2357th 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 Elk 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 | April 3, 2020 17:15 | April 3, 2020 21:00 | 3h 45m | 77 | 90 |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 14:00 | October 29, 2020 03:30 | 13h 30m | 73 | 208 |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 16:15 | October 28, 2020 10:45 | 18h 30m | 59 | 709 |
| 4 | September 26, 2020 17:45 | September 26, 2020 20:00 | 2h 15m | 51 | 115 |
| 5 | May 12, 2020 20:30 | May 13, 2020 01:30 | 5h | 42 | 58 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 00:30 | July 12, 2020 03:00 | 2h 30m | 36 | 56 |
| 7 | January 10, 2020 17:45 | January 10, 2020 22:15 | 4h 30m | 27 | 58 |
| 8 | July 9, 2020 09:45 | July 9, 2020 20:00 | 10h 15m | 25 | 184 |
| 9 | May 15, 2020 07:15 | May 15, 2020 14:00 | 6h 45m | 21 | 93 |
| 10 | August 2, 2020 22:00 | August 3, 2020 00:00 | 2h | 17 | 34 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county