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2021 Marion County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Marion County, KS went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1512th 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 Marion 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 21:30 | 4d 4h | 1,738 | 16K |
| 2 | April 9, 2021 06:30 | April 9, 2021 06:45 | 15m | 686 | 172 |
| 3 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 610 | 305 |
| 4 | June 25, 2021 21:45 | June 29, 2021 06:30 | 3d 8h | 362 | 1,211 |
| 5 | March 17, 2021 14:45 | March 17, 2021 20:30 | 5h 45m | 349 | 512 |
| 6 | October 5, 2021 04:00 | October 5, 2021 09:45 | 5h 45m | 323 | 1,763 |
| 7 | September 30, 2021 13:45 | September 30, 2021 16:45 | 3h | 322 | 886 |
| 8 | August 5, 2021 10:45 | August 6, 2021 11:00 | 1d | 310 | 1,880 |
| 9 | November 19, 2021 13:15 | November 19, 2021 13:30 | 15m | 268 | 67 |
| 10 | February 16, 2021 15:15 | February 16, 2021 19:30 | 4h 15m | 227 | 130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Marion 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hillsboro - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Marion - (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 ÷ 7,056 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county