County annual report · FIPS 20005
2021 Atchison County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Atchison County, KS went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1340th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Atchison County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 4,858 | 2,429 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 17:00 | December 19, 2021 05:00 | 3d 12h | 1,946 | 22K |
| 3 | June 11, 2021 18:45 | June 13, 2021 07:15 | 1d 12h | 1,621 | 5,726 |
| 4 | January 14, 2021 10:15 | January 14, 2021 14:00 | 3h 45m | 662 | 710 |
| 5 | January 18, 2021 20:30 | January 18, 2021 21:00 | 30m | 646 | 323 |
| 6 | April 16, 2021 22:45 | April 17, 2021 01:15 | 2h 30m | 639 | 328 |
| 7 | October 30, 2021 22:15 | October 31, 2021 03:00 | 4h 45m | 450 | 839 |
| 8 | September 28, 2021 16:15 | September 28, 2021 18:00 | 1h 45m | 449 | 786 |
| 9 | February 16, 2021 14:00 | February 16, 2021 20:45 | 6h 45m | 274 | 181 |
| 10 | January 9, 2021 17:00 | January 9, 2021 18:30 | 1h 30m | 155 | 227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Atchison County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.57 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2021 | 9.1 hrs | - | 6.0 hrs | - |
| Brown-Atchison E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Doniphan Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Horton - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Muscotah | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 80% of Kansas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,677 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. Atchison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Atchison County, KS annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/kansas/atchison-county