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2020 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 1,283 customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2691st 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 Rush 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 22, 2020 10:00 | October 22, 2020 10:45 | 45m | 319 | 83 |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 12:45 | June 18, 2020 14:30 | 1h 45m | 251 | 439 |
| 3 | September 12, 2020 10:30 | September 12, 2020 11:45 | 1h 15m | 134 | 168 |
| 4 | April 11, 2020 22:45 | April 12, 2020 01:15 | 2h 30m | 40 | 100 |
| 5 | October 26, 2020 19:15 | October 26, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 29 | 7 |
| 6 | April 2, 2020 14:15 | April 2, 2020 20:45 | 6h 30m | 14 | 91 |
| 7 | January 7, 2020 14:15 | January 7, 2020 21:30 | 7h 15m | 11 | 62 |
| 8 | September 12, 2020 22:00 | September 12, 2020 23:15 | 1h 15m | 11 | 14 |
| 9 | October 14, 2020 14:45 | October 14, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 11 | 8 |
| 10 | January 6, 2020 16:15 | January 6, 2020 22:15 | 6h | 10 | 60 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 3 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.61 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county