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2020 Smith County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Smith County, KS went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Kansas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1042nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Smith 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 | March 19, 2020 00:30 | March 19, 2020 13:45 | 13h 15m | 1,823 | 2,950 |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 13:15 | May 6, 2020 04:15 | 5d 15h | 223 | 375 |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 23:30 | July 24, 2020 08:00 | 58d 8h | 48 | 2,873 |
| 4 | October 20, 2020 06:30 | December 11, 2020 09:15 | 52d 2h | 34 | 1,548 |
| 5 | July 24, 2020 09:30 | August 20, 2020 08:00 | 26d 22h | 31 | 1,373 |
| 6 | August 28, 2020 02:45 | October 20, 2020 05:45 | 53d 3h | 31 | 3,034 |
| 7 | March 10, 2020 17:15 | March 10, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
| 8 | March 1, 2020 04:15 | March 1, 2020 06:45 | 2h 30m | 12 | 30 |
| 9 | April 16, 2020 03:45 | April 29, 2020 22:30 | 13d 18h | 10 | 363 |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 17:45 | April 15, 2020 22:15 | 15d 4h | 8 | 558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,010 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. Smith County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/kansas/smith-county