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2021 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 679th 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 Rice 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 19:00 | December 19, 2021 13:45 | 3d 18h | 2,288 | 26K |
| 2 | June 24, 2021 18:45 | June 24, 2021 20:15 | 1h 30m | 644 | 717 |
| 3 | October 13, 2021 06:30 | October 13, 2021 13:30 | 7h | 538 | 1,532 |
| 4 | August 15, 2021 23:15 | August 16, 2021 04:30 | 5h 15m | 248 | 992 |
| 5 | February 4, 2021 00:45 | February 4, 2021 04:30 | 3h 45m | 146 | 511 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 22:00 | October 26, 2021 22:30 | 30m | 112 | 56 |
| 7 | July 15, 2021 22:15 | July 16, 2021 17:45 | 19h 30m | 85 | 1,536 |
| 8 | August 8, 2021 07:30 | August 8, 2021 08:15 | 45m | 29 | 15 |
| 9 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 28 | 14 |
| 10 | May 9, 2021 07:00 | May 9, 2021 11:00 | 4h | 28 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 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 Rice 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county