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2020 Ottawa County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ottawa County, KS went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 866th 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 Ottawa 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 | December 29, 2020 13:00 | December 29, 2020 17:00 | 4h | 1,692 | 4,821 |
| 2 | May 4, 2020 13:00 | May 5, 2020 07:15 | 18h 15m | 768 | 3,751 |
| 3 | April 2, 2020 00:45 | April 2, 2020 01:00 | 15m | 394 | 99 |
| 4 | May 20, 2020 19:15 | May 21, 2020 01:45 | 6h 30m | 261 | 1,694 |
| 5 | July 27, 2020 01:45 | July 27, 2020 03:30 | 1h 45m | 211 | 214 |
| 6 | July 14, 2020 08:45 | July 14, 2020 14:00 | 5h 15m | 96 | 79 |
| 7 | September 27, 2020 21:15 | September 28, 2020 00:00 | 2h 45m | 90 | 248 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 03:30 | October 12, 2020 07:30 | 4h | 59 | 128 |
| 9 | May 26, 2020 04:00 | May 26, 2020 06:00 | 2h | 41 | 68 |
| 10 | June 11, 2020 15:00 | June 11, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 39 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ottawa 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Minneapolis - (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 ÷ 1,406 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. Ottawa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ottawa 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/ottawa-county