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2022 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1846th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2022
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 30, 2022 01:00 | May 6, 2022 01:15 | 6d | 5,574 | 85K |
| 2 | October 1, 2022 13:45 | October 1, 2022 18:45 | 5h | 1,979 | 3,967 |
| 3 | September 4, 2022 14:45 | September 4, 2022 21:45 | 7h | 1,714 | 3,453 |
| 4 | January 4, 2022 14:30 | January 4, 2022 19:45 | 5h 15m | 1,430 | 575 |
| 5 | June 21, 2022 21:00 | June 23, 2022 02:15 | 1d 5h | 1,358 | 3,901 |
| 6 | May 31, 2022 15:15 | June 2, 2022 01:15 | 1d 10h | 1,239 | 5,593 |
| 7 | February 17, 2022 10:00 | February 17, 2022 15:00 | 5h | 1,151 | 2,524 |
| 8 | August 28, 2022 04:15 | August 28, 2022 21:00 | 16h 45m | 982 | 2,639 |
| 9 | May 6, 2022 14:30 | May 7, 2022 02:45 | 12h 15m | 749 | 450 |
| 10 | July 7, 2022 01:15 | July 7, 2022 03:45 | 2h 30m | 689 | 353 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 30 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 1.07 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.37 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2022 | 2.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 59% of Kansas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/kansas/butler-county