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2021 Pottawatomie County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pottawatomie County, KS went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1437th 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 Pottawatomie 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 20:15 | December 18, 2021 22:30 | 3d 2h | 2,974 | 28K |
| 2 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 2,462 | 1,231 |
| 3 | June 17, 2021 06:00 | June 17, 2021 08:00 | 2h | 1,672 | 2,927 |
| 4 | May 27, 2021 06:45 | May 27, 2021 11:00 | 4h 15m | 1,417 | 2,137 |
| 5 | September 16, 2021 15:30 | September 16, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 842 | 211 |
| 6 | September 16, 2021 17:30 | September 16, 2021 20:15 | 2h 45m | 842 | 2,303 |
| 7 | May 1, 2021 19:15 | May 1, 2021 20:15 | 1h | 753 | 753 |
| 8 | August 13, 2021 07:45 | August 13, 2021 17:15 | 9h 30m | 368 | 1,157 |
| 9 | October 11, 2021 03:30 | October 11, 2021 05:45 | 2h 15m | 233 | 466 |
| 10 | May 23, 2021 15:30 | May 23, 2021 16:45 | 1h 15m | 223 | 278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pottawatomie 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 | - |
| Nemaha-Marshall E C A, Inc | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of St Marys - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wamego - (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 ÷ 9,791 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. Pottawatomie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawatomie 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/pottawatomie-county