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2021 Chase County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Chase County, KS went without power for an average of 21.7 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 394th 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 Chase 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 | February 22, 2021 20:45 | February 22, 2021 22:15 | 1h 30m | 1,029 | 1,544 |
| 2 | February 28, 2021 20:30 | February 28, 2021 22:15 | 1h 45m | 1,029 | 1,801 |
| 3 | October 30, 2021 00:30 | October 30, 2021 04:00 | 3h 30m | 639 | 1,426 |
| 4 | December 15, 2021 19:15 | December 16, 2021 19:30 | 1d | 562 | 7,725 |
| 5 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 329 | 165 |
| 6 | February 16, 2021 10:45 | February 16, 2021 15:15 | 4h 30m | 105 | 242 |
| 7 | October 30, 2021 19:00 | October 30, 2021 19:45 | 45m | 94 | 68 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 06:15 | December 11, 2021 08:30 | 2h 15m | 78 | 176 |
| 9 | January 7, 2021 21:15 | January 7, 2021 22:15 | 1h | 72 | 72 |
| 10 | October 11, 2021 02:45 | October 11, 2021 04:30 | 1h 45m | 65 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Chase 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
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 ÷ 699 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. Chase County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chase 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/chase-county