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2023 Bourbon County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bourbon County, KS went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1639th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bourbon County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 14, 2023 23:45 | July 17, 2023 09:15 | 2d 9h | 2,868 | 31K |
| 2 | January 23, 2023 16:30 | January 23, 2023 17:15 | 45m | 2,835 | 2,043 |
| 3 | November 26, 2023 02:30 | November 26, 2023 04:15 | 1h 45m | 1,518 | 1,900 |
| 4 | September 22, 2023 22:30 | September 22, 2023 23:15 | 45m | 1,516 | 1,137 |
| 5 | March 2, 2023 21:45 | March 2, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 991 | 776 |
| 6 | July 31, 2023 02:45 | July 31, 2023 19:45 | 17h | 456 | 3,412 |
| 7 | January 18, 2023 08:00 | January 18, 2023 10:15 | 2h 15m | 429 | 965 |
| 8 | September 20, 2023 05:15 | September 20, 2023 08:15 | 3h | 391 | 607 |
| 9 | October 7, 2023 10:15 | October 7, 2023 10:45 | 30m | 390 | 195 |
| 10 | March 31, 2023 17:30 | April 1, 2023 22:45 | 1d 5h | 357 | 678 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Bourbon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 7.8 hrs | 1.41 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2023 | 3.3 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.99 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 | 84 min | 0.94 |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| City of Bronson | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kansas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,147 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. Bourbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bourbon County, KS annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/kansas/bourbon-county