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2023 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2602nd 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 Cowley 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 | August 14, 2023 04:00 | August 14, 2023 19:45 | 15h 45m | 2,256 | 6,600 |
| 2 | August 5, 2023 11:15 | August 6, 2023 03:00 | 15h 45m | 1,742 | 9,985 |
| 3 | April 4, 2023 21:15 | April 5, 2023 02:15 | 5h | 695 | 569 |
| 4 | May 30, 2023 15:30 | May 30, 2023 15:45 | 15m | 249 | 62 |
| 5 | May 11, 2023 03:30 | May 11, 2023 12:45 | 9h 15m | 132 | 314 |
| 6 | December 19, 2023 18:00 | December 19, 2023 19:45 | 1h 45m | 132 | 166 |
| 7 | August 11, 2023 16:15 | August 11, 2023 20:15 | 4h | 129 | 62 |
| 8 | February 27, 2023 04:30 | March 1, 2023 16:30 | 2d 12h | 123 | 419 |
| 9 | June 18, 2023 04:00 | June 18, 2023 16:15 | 12h 15m | 92 | 644 |
| 10 | December 21, 2023 16:15 | December 21, 2023 21:15 | 5h | 91 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 | 84 min | 0.94 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county