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2022 Cherokee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cherokee County, KS went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 857th 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 Cherokee 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 | September 2, 2022 18:45 | September 2, 2022 20:00 | 1h 15m | 3,221 | 3,473 |
| 2 | October 1, 2022 17:45 | October 1, 2022 18:45 | 1h | 3,221 | 2,234 |
| 3 | October 2, 2022 21:45 | October 3, 2022 01:30 | 3h 45m | 3,221 | 8,880 |
| 4 | October 24, 2022 13:00 | October 24, 2022 14:45 | 1h 45m | 1,332 | 1,588 |
| 5 | May 21, 2022 13:15 | May 21, 2022 14:00 | 45m | 1,150 | 863 |
| 6 | June 24, 2022 12:30 | June 24, 2022 13:00 | 30m | 966 | 483 |
| 7 | December 13, 2022 15:00 | December 13, 2022 17:00 | 2h | 966 | 391 |
| 8 | May 5, 2022 19:15 | May 5, 2022 20:45 | 1h 30m | 770 | 880 |
| 9 | September 9, 2022 09:30 | September 9, 2022 10:45 | 1h 15m | 521 | 539 |
| 10 | March 18, 2022 18:15 | March 18, 2022 19:45 | 1h 30m | 519 | 546 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Cherokee 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 Kansas South, Inc | 2022 | 2.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.01 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 0.17 | 1.8 hrs | 0.15 |
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 ÷ 2,982 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county