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2021 Smith County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Smith County, KS went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1050th 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 Smith 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 16, 2021 09:30 | May 5, 2021 01:30 | 18d 16h | 1,230 | 1,850 |
| 2 | December 8, 2021 12:15 | December 23, 2021 15:15 | 15d 3h | 514 | 2,310 |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 13:30 | February 17, 2021 16:30 | 1d 3h | 452 | 371 |
| 4 | May 5, 2021 02:30 | May 31, 2021 04:45 | 26d 2h | 255 | 1,621 |
| 5 | June 25, 2021 23:30 | August 25, 2021 16:30 | 60d 17h | 219 | 2,202 |
| 6 | February 15, 2021 19:15 | February 15, 2021 21:15 | 2h | 199 | 53 |
| 7 | May 31, 2021 06:45 | June 24, 2021 22:15 | 24d 15h | 36 | 1,202 |
| 8 | January 23, 2021 18:45 | January 26, 2021 19:45 | 3d 1h | 29 | 114 |
| 9 | February 5, 2021 19:00 | February 6, 2021 13:30 | 18h 30m | 29 | 529 |
| 10 | March 2, 2021 21:15 | April 16, 2021 08:30 | 44d 11h | 8 | 1,338 |
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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,010 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. Smith County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/kansas/smith-county