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2020 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2827th 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 McPherson 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 8, 2020 05:15 | January 8, 2020 06:00 | 45m | 804 | 603 |
| 2 | September 18, 2020 04:15 | September 18, 2020 08:45 | 4h 30m | 800 | 3,600 |
| 3 | May 25, 2020 04:15 | May 25, 2020 06:30 | 2h 15m | 389 | 874 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 02:15 | November 15, 2020 03:45 | 1h 30m | 297 | 443 |
| 5 | December 7, 2020 21:00 | December 10, 2020 22:15 | 3d 1h | 162 | 506 |
| 6 | September 27, 2020 17:00 | September 27, 2020 19:15 | 2h 15m | 130 | 231 |
| 7 | May 27, 2020 09:45 | May 27, 2020 11:30 | 1h 45m | 129 | 226 |
| 8 | October 7, 2020 21:15 | October 8, 2020 01:00 | 3h 45m | 104 | 390 |
| 9 | March 2, 2020 17:45 | March 2, 2020 23:30 | 5h 45m | 102 | 335 |
| 10 | July 15, 2020 07:15 | July 15, 2020 14:00 | 6h 45m | 89 | 202 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.61 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2020 | 86 min | 0.89 | 86 min | 0.89 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2020 | 9 min | 0.06 | 9 min | 0.06 |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county