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2023 Chase County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chase County, KS went without power for an average of 17.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 94 Kansas counties and 472nd 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 Chase 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 | April 20, 2023 01:45 | April 21, 2023 06:15 | 1d 4h | 921 | 5,163 |
| 2 | January 30, 2023 03:45 | January 30, 2023 05:45 | 2h | 646 | 1,131 |
| 3 | May 9, 2023 20:30 | May 10, 2023 00:15 | 3h 45m | 640 | 739 |
| 4 | March 31, 2023 18:15 | March 31, 2023 23:30 | 5h 15m | 343 | 945 |
| 5 | September 16, 2023 13:00 | September 16, 2023 19:00 | 6h | 326 | 1,715 |
| 6 | July 14, 2023 22:00 | July 16, 2023 07:00 | 1d 9h | 159 | 717 |
| 7 | June 21, 2023 11:15 | June 21, 2023 13:00 | 1h 45m | 64 | 112 |
| 8 | January 9, 2023 20:45 | January 9, 2023 22:30 | 1h 45m | 56 | 98 |
| 9 | April 28, 2023 12:30 | April 28, 2023 12:45 | 15m | 54 | 14 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 14:30 | August 8, 2023 15:45 | 1h 15m | 54 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 6 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 Chase 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 699 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. Chase County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chase 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/chase-county