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2022 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1482nd 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 Rice 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 | March 1, 2022 22:00 | March 2, 2022 00:45 | 2h 45m | 2,168 | 4,336 |
| 2 | March 18, 2022 00:15 | March 18, 2022 02:00 | 1h 45m | 1,108 | 660 |
| 3 | January 10, 2022 00:00 | January 10, 2022 02:15 | 2h 15m | 836 | 1,416 |
| 4 | December 22, 2022 05:15 | December 22, 2022 14:45 | 9h 30m | 420 | 1,828 |
| 5 | April 30, 2022 00:45 | April 30, 2022 05:45 | 5h | 329 | 810 |
| 6 | October 4, 2022 13:45 | October 4, 2022 15:30 | 1h 45m | 267 | 71 |
| 7 | May 1, 2022 17:30 | May 1, 2022 20:15 | 2h 45m | 227 | 568 |
| 8 | June 11, 2022 03:15 | June 11, 2022 04:45 | 1h 30m | 208 | 311 |
| 9 | July 7, 2022 00:00 | July 7, 2022 22:45 | 22h 45m | 155 | 680 |
| 10 | July 8, 2022 08:45 | July 8, 2022 11:45 | 3h | 121 | 363 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county