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2021 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2688th 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 Cowley 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 | 4,462 | 2,231 |
| 2 | March 9, 2021 18:45 | March 9, 2021 22:15 | 3h 30m | 1,457 | 2,166 |
| 3 | August 8, 2021 14:45 | August 8, 2021 21:00 | 6h 15m | 1,372 | 741 |
| 4 | July 7, 2021 17:15 | July 7, 2021 21:15 | 4h | 858 | 1,861 |
| 5 | November 11, 2021 15:45 | November 11, 2021 16:00 | 15m | 807 | 202 |
| 6 | June 8, 2021 13:15 | June 8, 2021 19:00 | 5h 45m | 326 | 367 |
| 7 | August 1, 2021 01:15 | August 1, 2021 18:00 | 16h 45m | 286 | 1,770 |
| 8 | May 11, 2021 13:15 | May 11, 2021 14:15 | 1h | 233 | 233 |
| 9 | April 2, 2021 17:30 | April 2, 2021 20:30 | 3h | 142 | 150 |
| 10 | March 17, 2021 21:30 | March 18, 2021 00:15 | 2h 45m | 124 | 155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 13 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county