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2021 Sedgwick County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sedgwick County, KS went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 576K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2135th 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 Sedgwick 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 11:00 | April 23, 2021 00:45 | 13h 45m | 118,716 | 59K |
| 2 | February 26, 2021 14:15 | March 2, 2021 01:30 | 3d 11h | 9,820 | 34K |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 14:15 | May 5, 2021 04:15 | 14h | 8,272 | 23K |
| 4 | March 29, 2021 13:45 | March 31, 2021 03:15 | 1d 13h | 8,013 | 25K |
| 5 | September 4, 2021 00:45 | September 5, 2021 03:15 | 1d 2h | 6,702 | 15K |
| 6 | June 28, 2021 10:00 | June 29, 2021 04:15 | 18h 15m | 5,348 | 8,205 |
| 7 | September 7, 2021 12:15 | September 8, 2021 12:00 | 23h 45m | 5,324 | 19K |
| 8 | June 11, 2021 13:30 | June 16, 2021 08:00 | 4d 18h | 4,991 | 29K |
| 9 | December 15, 2021 14:30 | December 18, 2021 06:00 | 2d 15h | 4,336 | 29K |
| 10 | March 16, 2021 08:45 | March 19, 2021 04:00 | 2d 19h | 4,075 | 6,891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 197 reached 100+ customers, 51 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 Sedgwick 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 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.5 hrs | 0.97 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sedgwick County El Coop Assn Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mulvane - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mount Hope - (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 ÷ 255,977 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. Sedgwick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sedgwick 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/sedgwick-county