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2021 Douglas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Douglas County, KS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2245th 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 Douglas 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 23, 2021 01:15 | 2h | 26,721 | 13K |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 09:15 | February 16, 2021 19:45 | 10h 30m | 3,740 | 2,874 |
| 3 | November 20, 2021 13:00 | November 20, 2021 15:45 | 2h 45m | 2,487 | 4,367 |
| 4 | August 14, 2021 10:30 | August 15, 2021 14:30 | 1d 4h | 2,372 | 3,763 |
| 5 | December 15, 2021 15:30 | December 18, 2021 10:30 | 2d 19h | 2,173 | 20K |
| 6 | August 13, 2021 03:45 | August 14, 2021 09:30 | 1d 5h | 1,656 | 18K |
| 7 | May 17, 2021 14:00 | May 17, 2021 21:00 | 7h | 1,601 | 1,257 |
| 8 | October 23, 2021 12:30 | October 23, 2021 17:45 | 5h 15m | 1,426 | 1,153 |
| 9 | June 8, 2021 11:45 | June 9, 2021 06:45 | 19h | 1,320 | 2,747 |
| 10 | February 8, 2021 14:15 | February 8, 2021 17:30 | 3h 15m | 1,183 | 2,307 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 73 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Douglas 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 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2021 | 9.1 hrs | - | 6.0 hrs | - |
| City of Baldwin City- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eudora - (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 ÷ 68,914 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county