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2021 Washington County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, KS went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1377th 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 Washington 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 20:30 | December 22, 2021 17:45 | 6d 21h | 827 | 5,522 |
| 2 | April 22, 2021 23:15 | April 22, 2021 23:45 | 30m | 468 | 234 |
| 3 | May 5, 2021 02:30 | May 31, 2021 04:45 | 26d 2h | 353 | 2,641 |
| 4 | October 13, 2021 06:30 | October 13, 2021 09:30 | 3h | 271 | 545 |
| 5 | June 26, 2021 10:15 | June 28, 2021 15:45 | 2d 5h | 187 | 676 |
| 6 | November 9, 2021 19:15 | November 9, 2021 19:30 | 15m | 147 | 37 |
| 7 | August 21, 2021 18:15 | August 23, 2021 13:15 | 1d 19h | 110 | 289 |
| 8 | December 2, 2021 15:15 | December 2, 2021 17:30 | 2h 15m | 75 | 158 |
| 9 | August 21, 2021 00:15 | August 21, 2021 03:00 | 2h 45m | 41 | 103 |
| 10 | May 31, 2021 06:45 | June 21, 2021 21:15 | 21d 14h | 30 | 714 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 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 Washington 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 Kansas Central, Inc | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Nemaha-Marshall E C A, Inc | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 2,452 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county