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2021 Dickinson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dickinson County, KS went without power for an average of 18.4 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 467th 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 Dickinson 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 14:30 | December 20, 2021 00:30 | 4d 10h | 4,739 | 62K |
| 2 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 2,927 | 1,464 |
| 3 | August 21, 2021 00:00 | August 21, 2021 15:30 | 15h 30m | 1,729 | 3,327 |
| 4 | August 8, 2021 02:15 | August 8, 2021 17:15 | 15h | 602 | 374 |
| 5 | March 18, 2021 01:30 | March 18, 2021 03:30 | 2h | 600 | 305 |
| 6 | April 7, 2021 05:45 | April 7, 2021 11:45 | 6h | 270 | 344 |
| 7 | March 10, 2021 01:00 | March 10, 2021 02:30 | 1h 30m | 155 | 233 |
| 8 | June 14, 2021 15:15 | June 14, 2021 15:30 | 15m | 108 | 27 |
| 9 | May 9, 2021 15:15 | May 9, 2021 21:00 | 5h 45m | 93 | 531 |
| 10 | August 30, 2021 01:30 | August 30, 2021 05:00 | 3h 30m | 87 | 305 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 8 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 Dickinson 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 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Herington - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Chapman - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Enterprise - (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 ÷ 4,008 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. Dickinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickinson 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/dickinson-county