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2021 Brown County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Brown County, KS went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 685th 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 Brown 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 | September 6, 2021 08:00 | September 6, 2021 08:15 | 15m | 2,606 | 652 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 19:30 | December 20, 2021 01:15 | 4d 5h | 1,622 | 27K |
| 3 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 1,495 | 748 |
| 4 | October 12, 2021 00:15 | October 12, 2021 05:00 | 4h 45m | 1,368 | 2,118 |
| 5 | July 7, 2021 15:45 | July 8, 2021 07:45 | 16h | 1,259 | 8,849 |
| 6 | June 11, 2021 18:15 | June 13, 2021 22:45 | 2d 4h | 635 | 13K |
| 7 | March 14, 2021 18:30 | March 14, 2021 23:15 | 4h 45m | 425 | 925 |
| 8 | June 25, 2021 01:00 | June 25, 2021 10:00 | 9h | 425 | 3,114 |
| 9 | March 23, 2021 16:45 | March 23, 2021 17:00 | 15m | 400 | 100 |
| 10 | December 25, 2021 05:45 | December 25, 2021 08:00 | 2h 15m | 387 | 780 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Brown 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 |
| Brown-Atchison E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Doniphan Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Horton - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sabetha - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Morrill - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robinson - (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 80% of Kansas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,077 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. Brown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brown 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/brown-county