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2021 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 893rd 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 Rush 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 18, 2021 05:00 | 2d 10h | 947 | 11K |
| 2 | July 13, 2021 17:00 | July 13, 2021 18:30 | 1h 30m | 292 | 117 |
| 3 | November 5, 2021 13:00 | November 5, 2021 13:45 | 45m | 231 | 90 |
| 4 | December 18, 2021 18:45 | December 18, 2021 19:00 | 15m | 88 | 22 |
| 5 | May 11, 2021 12:00 | May 11, 2021 13:45 | 1h 45m | 72 | 108 |
| 6 | May 7, 2021 17:15 | May 7, 2021 19:30 | 2h 15m | 60 | 135 |
| 7 | July 13, 2021 20:45 | July 13, 2021 21:30 | 45m | 43 | 32 |
| 8 | March 11, 2021 20:15 | March 11, 2021 21:45 | 1h 30m | 41 | 52 |
| 9 | December 20, 2021 16:45 | December 23, 2021 02:30 | 2d 9h | 26 | 110 |
| 10 | April 6, 2021 23:45 | April 7, 2021 13:00 | 13h 15m | 17 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2021 | 42.3 hrs | 2.40 | 2.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county