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2022 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 192K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 683rd 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 Riley 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 11, 2022 23:30 | June 15, 2022 00:30 | 3d 1h | 16,752 | 125K |
| 2 | June 22, 2022 02:00 | June 23, 2022 02:45 | 1d | 4,679 | 23K |
| 3 | January 15, 2022 05:45 | January 15, 2022 10:45 | 5h | 2,473 | 11K |
| 4 | March 18, 2022 06:30 | March 18, 2022 14:45 | 8h 15m | 1,917 | 5,159 |
| 5 | June 23, 2022 13:30 | June 23, 2022 15:30 | 2h | 1,807 | 1,889 |
| 6 | November 21, 2022 16:15 | November 21, 2022 20:30 | 4h 15m | 1,639 | 1,657 |
| 7 | August 15, 2022 08:30 | August 15, 2022 20:45 | 12h 15m | 1,331 | 1,376 |
| 8 | July 4, 2022 12:00 | July 4, 2022 12:45 | 45m | 1,225 | 308 |
| 9 | March 18, 2022 15:30 | March 18, 2022 17:45 | 2h 15m | 1,093 | 1,098 |
| 10 | November 9, 2022 11:00 | November 9, 2022 21:30 | 10h 30m | 828 | 646 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 28 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop 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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county