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2022 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 8,315 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2874th 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 McPherson 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 | January 4, 2022 17:00 | January 4, 2022 17:15 | 15m | 736 | 184 |
| 2 | March 18, 2022 05:00 | March 18, 2022 11:45 | 6h 45m | 579 | 1,460 |
| 3 | January 14, 2022 23:00 | January 15, 2022 01:30 | 2h 30m | 381 | 116 |
| 4 | August 22, 2022 19:15 | August 22, 2022 21:45 | 2h 30m | 358 | 895 |
| 5 | August 26, 2022 05:15 | August 26, 2022 07:30 | 2h 15m | 358 | 806 |
| 6 | December 22, 2022 04:45 | December 23, 2022 01:15 | 20h 30m | 95 | 742 |
| 7 | March 30, 2022 00:45 | March 30, 2022 05:15 | 4h 30m | 88 | 379 |
| 8 | December 3, 2022 01:00 | December 3, 2022 03:00 | 2h | 78 | 153 |
| 9 | September 18, 2022 01:30 | September 18, 2022 04:15 | 2h 45m | 77 | 211 |
| 10 | September 25, 2022 13:00 | September 25, 2022 17:15 | 4h 15m | 55 | 195 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2022 | 10.8 hrs | 2.14 | 3.0 hrs | 1.58 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2022 | 8 min | 0.09 | 8 min | 0.09 |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county