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2021 Geary County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Geary County, KS went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 978th 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 Geary 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 16:45 | December 19, 2021 04:15 | 3d 11h | 5,611 | 51K |
| 2 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 4,152 | 2,076 |
| 3 | August 18, 2021 15:00 | August 18, 2021 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,555 | 786 |
| 4 | May 9, 2021 02:00 | May 9, 2021 11:45 | 9h 45m | 1,515 | 4,737 |
| 5 | February 16, 2021 14:00 | February 16, 2021 19:15 | 5h 15m | 1,502 | 1,160 |
| 6 | October 8, 2021 23:00 | October 9, 2021 00:30 | 1h 30m | 895 | 952 |
| 7 | September 5, 2021 05:30 | September 5, 2021 08:30 | 3h | 561 | 1,130 |
| 8 | July 31, 2021 10:00 | July 31, 2021 10:15 | 15m | 392 | 98 |
| 9 | December 19, 2021 16:15 | December 19, 2021 20:15 | 4h | 255 | 958 |
| 10 | July 15, 2021 07:00 | July 15, 2021 13:45 | 6h 45m | 193 | 352 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 14 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Geary 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. | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,978 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. Geary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Geary 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/geary-county