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2020 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 8,659 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1799th 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 Rice 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 | September 26, 2020 14:15 | September 26, 2020 16:45 | 2h 30m | 2,869 | 2,848 |
| 2 | June 21, 2020 04:45 | June 21, 2020 06:00 | 1h 15m | 2,745 | 1,856 |
| 3 | October 16, 2020 22:30 | October 17, 2020 01:30 | 3h | 478 | 154 |
| 4 | January 25, 2020 20:30 | January 25, 2020 23:30 | 3h | 403 | 1,209 |
| 5 | February 6, 2020 06:15 | February 6, 2020 08:00 | 1h 45m | 373 | 653 |
| 6 | March 14, 2020 13:30 | March 14, 2020 14:15 | 45m | 232 | 146 |
| 7 | December 27, 2020 14:00 | December 27, 2020 15:45 | 1h 45m | 231 | 179 |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 02:00 | June 29, 2020 02:30 | 30m | 218 | 55 |
| 9 | December 17, 2020 15:00 | December 17, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 184 | 139 |
| 10 | July 30, 2020 02:45 | July 30, 2020 04:45 | 2h | 142 | 254 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county