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2021 Saline County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Saline County, KS went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 416K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 318th 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 Saline 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 16:15 | December 20, 2021 01:30 | 4d 9h | 20,554 | 344K |
| 2 | January 15, 2021 08:30 | January 15, 2021 10:30 | 2h | 17,991 | 9,089 |
| 3 | February 20, 2021 20:00 | February 22, 2021 15:15 | 1d 19h | 13,814 | 5,163 |
| 4 | March 8, 2021 17:00 | March 8, 2021 20:00 | 3h | 9,304 | 2,853 |
| 5 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 6,983 | 3,492 |
| 6 | September 29, 2021 21:45 | September 30, 2021 01:45 | 4h | 2,883 | 5,766 |
| 7 | May 26, 2021 13:45 | May 27, 2021 22:30 | 1d 8h | 2,794 | 11K |
| 8 | August 8, 2021 02:15 | August 8, 2021 22:30 | 20h 15m | 1,356 | 8,017 |
| 9 | February 15, 2021 18:45 | February 16, 2021 01:15 | 6h 30m | 1,330 | 1,976 |
| 10 | February 16, 2021 15:15 | February 16, 2021 22:15 | 7h | 1,245 | 823 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 29 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Saline 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,835 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. Saline County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saline 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/saline-county