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2020 Russell County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Russell County, KS went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2268th 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 Russell 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 | January 18, 2020 00:00 | January 18, 2020 01:00 | 1h | 916 | 916 |
| 2 | May 31, 2020 09:00 | May 31, 2020 09:45 | 45m | 914 | 230 |
| 3 | May 31, 2020 17:45 | June 1, 2020 14:30 | 20h 45m | 610 | 2,000 |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 20:45 | June 22, 2020 19:30 | 22h 45m | 403 | 2,684 |
| 5 | June 26, 2020 11:30 | June 26, 2020 16:45 | 5h 15m | 403 | 2,116 |
| 6 | April 12, 2020 19:15 | April 12, 2020 21:15 | 2h | 280 | 421 |
| 7 | June 19, 2020 14:45 | June 19, 2020 16:45 | 2h | 248 | 249 |
| 8 | December 27, 2020 15:45 | December 27, 2020 17:00 | 1h 15m | 248 | 248 |
| 9 | December 2, 2020 13:45 | December 2, 2020 18:45 | 5h | 213 | 959 |
| 10 | November 8, 2020 21:30 | November 9, 2020 01:00 | 3h 30m | 164 | 533 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Russell 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lucas- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Luray - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russell - (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 ÷ 5,948 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county