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2023 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2484th 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 Butler 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 | November 18, 2023 20:15 | November 20, 2023 01:15 | 1d 5h | 1,715 | 3,421 |
| 2 | August 9, 2023 09:00 | August 10, 2023 02:45 | 17h 45m | 1,521 | 2,881 |
| 3 | August 6, 2023 05:15 | August 7, 2023 02:30 | 21h 15m | 1,479 | 7,949 |
| 4 | January 11, 2023 15:15 | January 11, 2023 23:15 | 8h | 1,190 | 960 |
| 5 | January 13, 2023 16:30 | January 13, 2023 23:15 | 6h 45m | 1,049 | 469 |
| 6 | February 27, 2023 00:45 | February 27, 2023 02:15 | 1h 30m | 945 | 946 |
| 7 | August 22, 2023 14:45 | August 22, 2023 19:15 | 4h 30m | 829 | 261 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 18:15 | April 5, 2023 19:00 | 45m | 818 | 544 |
| 9 | July 14, 2023 22:00 | July 15, 2023 03:30 | 5h 30m | 814 | 1,549 |
| 10 | September 9, 2023 13:30 | September 9, 2023 19:30 | 6h | 801 | 1,019 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 45 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Butler 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 n/a of Kansas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county