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2021 Clay County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Clay County, KS went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1910th 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 Clay 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 | December 15, 2021 21:15 | December 20, 2021 01:45 | 4d 4h | 861 | 15K |
| 2 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 532 | 266 |
| 3 | April 7, 2021 09:15 | April 7, 2021 10:15 | 1h | 171 | 171 |
| 4 | May 26, 2021 10:15 | May 26, 2021 15:15 | 5h | 127 | 552 |
| 5 | June 26, 2021 16:15 | June 26, 2021 19:15 | 3h | 108 | 302 |
| 6 | November 13, 2021 21:15 | November 14, 2021 00:15 | 3h | 28 | 84 |
| 7 | July 7, 2021 21:15 | July 7, 2021 21:30 | 15m | 20 | 5 |
| 8 | June 20, 2021 22:15 | June 21, 2021 04:15 | 6h | 17 | 53 |
| 9 | May 9, 2021 03:45 | May 9, 2021 10:45 | 7h | 16 | 108 |
| 10 | May 27, 2021 02:45 | May 27, 2021 07:45 | 5h | 16 | 80 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Clay 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 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Clay Center - (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 ÷ 5,867 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county