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2021 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 3,894 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2019th 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 Elk 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 | January 1, 2021 09:45 | January 1, 2021 18:45 | 9h | 152 | 1,134 |
| 2 | November 10, 2021 21:30 | November 11, 2021 05:00 | 7h 30m | 136 | 754 |
| 3 | April 16, 2021 12:45 | April 16, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 89 | 90 |
| 4 | June 29, 2021 06:30 | June 29, 2021 15:00 | 8h 30m | 86 | 205 |
| 5 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 71 | 36 |
| 6 | July 17, 2021 09:30 | July 17, 2021 09:45 | 15m | 66 | 17 |
| 7 | July 17, 2021 10:45 | July 17, 2021 11:45 | 1h | 66 | 66 |
| 8 | February 22, 2021 06:00 | February 22, 2021 10:15 | 4h 15m | 36 | 108 |
| 9 | October 11, 2021 08:45 | October 11, 2021 16:00 | 7h 15m | 34 | 127 |
| 10 | November 11, 2021 12:30 | November 11, 2021 20:30 | 8h | 34 | 45 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Elk 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 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county