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2022 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1086th 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 Elk 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 | June 1, 2022 01:45 | June 1, 2022 12:30 | 10h 45m | 780 | 2,629 |
| 2 | October 16, 2022 03:00 | October 16, 2022 07:00 | 4h | 508 | 1,479 |
| 3 | September 23, 2022 04:30 | September 23, 2022 09:00 | 4h 30m | 266 | 1,197 |
| 4 | January 1, 2022 12:15 | January 1, 2022 15:00 | 2h 45m | 202 | 502 |
| 5 | June 7, 2022 10:00 | June 7, 2022 11:45 | 1h 45m | 184 | 322 |
| 6 | September 11, 2022 16:30 | September 11, 2022 19:15 | 2h 45m | 125 | 271 |
| 7 | May 31, 2022 01:15 | May 31, 2022 01:30 | 15m | 81 | 20 |
| 8 | July 20, 2022 12:15 | July 20, 2022 13:45 | 1h 30m | 78 | 117 |
| 9 | August 15, 2022 20:00 | August 15, 2022 22:45 | 2h 45m | 73 | 194 |
| 10 | June 12, 2022 03:30 | June 13, 2022 00:15 | 20h 45m | 66 | 1,163 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county