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2020 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2156th 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 Riley 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 | August 4, 2020 13:45 | August 4, 2020 19:00 | 5h 15m | 6,875 | 13K |
| 2 | July 9, 2020 07:00 | July 10, 2020 17:15 | 1d 10h | 3,355 | 5,357 |
| 3 | August 24, 2020 21:45 | August 25, 2020 00:30 | 2h 45m | 1,659 | 1,668 |
| 4 | February 24, 2020 05:45 | February 24, 2020 11:00 | 5h 15m | 1,287 | 4,521 |
| 5 | June 27, 2020 22:45 | June 28, 2020 01:15 | 2h 30m | 756 | 1,145 |
| 6 | January 17, 2020 13:00 | January 17, 2020 14:45 | 1h 45m | 641 | 822 |
| 7 | May 25, 2020 04:00 | May 25, 2020 04:15 | 15m | 405 | 101 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 16:00 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | 30m | 285 | 143 |
| 9 | September 6, 2020 17:30 | September 6, 2020 19:45 | 2h 15m | 280 | 215 |
| 10 | October 7, 2020 23:45 | October 8, 2020 04:45 | 5h | 209 | 847 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 28 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop 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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county