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2021 Lincoln County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, KS went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 7,773 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 841st 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 Lincoln 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 | 286 | 143 |
| 2 | May 27, 2021 01:15 | May 27, 2021 03:30 | 2h 15m | 284 | 639 |
| 3 | May 27, 2021 20:15 | May 27, 2021 20:30 | 15m | 284 | 71 |
| 4 | January 15, 2021 08:45 | January 15, 2021 09:15 | 30m | 280 | 140 |
| 5 | July 15, 2021 23:00 | July 16, 2021 01:45 | 2h 45m | 253 | 696 |
| 6 | December 15, 2021 23:00 | December 18, 2021 21:00 | 2d 22h | 253 | 5,790 |
| 7 | March 17, 2021 20:30 | March 18, 2021 00:15 | 3h 45m | 18 | 55 |
| 8 | December 15, 2021 17:45 | December 15, 2021 22:15 | 4h 30m | 8 | 24 |
| 9 | February 15, 2021 18:45 | February 15, 2021 20:30 | 1h 45m | 5 | 9 |
| 10 | January 7, 2021 21:30 | January 7, 2021 22:30 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 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 Lincoln 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 Kansas Central, Inc | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 42.3 hrs | 2.40 | 2.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincoln Center - (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 ÷ 848 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county