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2021 Reno County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Reno County, KS went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 169K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1384th 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 Reno 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 | 23,721 | 12K |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 17:30 | December 19, 2021 23:00 | 4d 5h | 9,129 | 109K |
| 3 | May 23, 2021 13:00 | May 24, 2021 02:45 | 13h 45m | 2,726 | 4,201 |
| 4 | July 16, 2021 01:15 | July 16, 2021 13:45 | 12h 30m | 1,691 | 3,277 |
| 5 | August 26, 2021 17:15 | August 27, 2021 01:30 | 8h 15m | 1,180 | 957 |
| 6 | June 25, 2021 23:00 | June 29, 2021 07:30 | 3d 8h | 1,145 | 4,282 |
| 7 | August 21, 2021 01:45 | August 21, 2021 11:45 | 10h | 897 | 2,102 |
| 8 | January 15, 2021 15:30 | January 15, 2021 20:15 | 4h 45m | 896 | 915 |
| 9 | December 13, 2021 17:30 | December 13, 2021 19:45 | 2h 15m | 763 | 768 |
| 10 | January 20, 2021 16:15 | January 20, 2021 16:45 | 30m | 684 | 342 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 50 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Reno 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 42.3 hrs | 2.40 | 2.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| Southern Pioneer Electric Company | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | - | 3.7 hrs | - |
| Sedgwick County El Coop Assn Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Haven - (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 ÷ 35,754 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. Reno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Reno 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/reno-county