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2020 Reno County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Reno County, KS went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2388th 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 Reno 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 10, 2020 18:45 | October 10, 2020 20:30 | 1h 45m | 4,447 | 5,555 |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 03:30 | June 10, 2020 09:45 | 6h 15m | 3,866 | 5,516 |
| 3 | October 12, 2020 03:15 | October 12, 2020 18:00 | 14h 45m | 1,952 | 4,728 |
| 4 | May 15, 2020 07:15 | May 15, 2020 10:30 | 3h 15m | 1,927 | 1,173 |
| 5 | October 16, 2020 11:45 | October 16, 2020 21:15 | 9h 30m | 1,431 | 942 |
| 6 | April 16, 2020 23:15 | April 17, 2020 01:15 | 2h | 1,111 | 1,668 |
| 7 | January 19, 2020 19:15 | January 19, 2020 19:45 | 30m | 1,106 | 313 |
| 8 | November 25, 2020 08:45 | November 25, 2020 23:45 | 15h | 983 | 1,116 |
| 9 | July 29, 2020 23:00 | July 30, 2020 02:00 | 3h | 833 | 634 |
| 10 | April 12, 2020 23:15 | April 13, 2020 03:00 | 3h 45m | 749 | 760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Reno 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 |
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Sedgwick County El Coop Assn Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Haven - (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 ÷ 35,754 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. Reno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Reno 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/reno-county