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2021 Shawnee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Shawnee County, KS went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 662K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1086th 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 Shawnee 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 | 28,443 | 14K |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 15:00 | December 19, 2021 21:00 | 4d 6h | 23,275 | 335K |
| 3 | June 25, 2021 08:45 | June 27, 2021 06:15 | 1d 21h | 10,505 | 61K |
| 4 | May 5, 2021 13:45 | May 6, 2021 02:30 | 12h 45m | 7,801 | 10K |
| 5 | July 10, 2021 07:00 | July 11, 2021 23:00 | 1d 16h | 7,368 | 46K |
| 6 | January 9, 2021 19:45 | January 10, 2021 00:45 | 5h | 3,165 | 805 |
| 7 | January 20, 2021 17:00 | January 22, 2021 01:15 | 1d 8h | 3,112 | 90K |
| 8 | July 7, 2021 12:45 | July 8, 2021 20:45 | 1d 8h | 2,879 | 4,257 |
| 9 | July 4, 2021 19:30 | July 4, 2021 20:30 | 1h | 2,211 | 1,107 |
| 10 | November 8, 2021 13:45 | November 8, 2021 23:45 | 10h | 1,815 | 1,642 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 107 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Shawnee 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 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2021 | 9.1 hrs | - | 6.0 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 101,321 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. Shawnee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shawnee 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/shawnee-county