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2020 Jefferson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jefferson County, KS went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1745th 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 Jefferson 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 | June 4, 2020 06:15 | June 4, 2020 18:45 | 12h 30m | 2,770 | 7,600 |
| 2 | November 10, 2020 10:15 | November 10, 2020 20:30 | 10h 15m | 1,303 | 4,475 |
| 3 | June 19, 2020 16:15 | June 19, 2020 23:15 | 7h | 723 | 4,516 |
| 4 | May 24, 2020 09:15 | May 24, 2020 18:00 | 8h 45m | 623 | 1,675 |
| 5 | June 4, 2020 02:30 | June 4, 2020 05:15 | 2h 45m | 515 | 905 |
| 6 | July 9, 2020 08:15 | July 9, 2020 13:00 | 4h 45m | 510 | 1,352 |
| 7 | May 25, 2020 20:30 | May 25, 2020 22:15 | 1h 45m | 497 | 623 |
| 8 | January 10, 2020 20:45 | January 11, 2020 06:15 | 9h 30m | 478 | 2,239 |
| 9 | April 5, 2020 15:30 | April 5, 2020 19:00 | 3h 30m | 454 | 1,587 |
| 10 | November 15, 2020 03:30 | November 15, 2020 10:30 | 7h | 377 | 775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 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 Jefferson 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 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | - | 5.2 hrs | - |
| Brown-Atchison E C A 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 ÷ 10,486 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county