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2023 Douglas County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Douglas County, KS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 221K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1889th 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 Douglas 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 19:45 | July 17, 2023 21:45 | 3d 2h | 10,143 | 110K |
| 2 | March 11, 2023 01:00 | March 11, 2023 04:00 | 3h | 3,450 | 1,399 |
| 3 | July 31, 2023 00:45 | August 3, 2023 00:15 | 2d 23h | 2,574 | 15K |
| 4 | January 17, 2023 15:15 | January 18, 2023 01:15 | 10h | 2,497 | 7,023 |
| 5 | February 3, 2023 21:15 | February 3, 2023 22:30 | 1h 15m | 2,444 | 615 |
| 6 | January 15, 2023 19:30 | January 15, 2023 20:30 | 1h | 2,408 | 2,407 |
| 7 | February 12, 2023 14:45 | February 12, 2023 20:30 | 5h 45m | 2,073 | 694 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 21:00 | April 6, 2023 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,768 | 2,348 |
| 9 | April 17, 2023 04:00 | April 17, 2023 04:15 | 15m | 1,716 | 429 |
| 10 | June 20, 2023 18:15 | June 21, 2023 01:30 | 7h 15m | 1,694 | 7,030 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 81 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Douglas 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 |
| FreeState Electric Coop | 2023 | 6.7 hrs | - | 6.4 hrs | - |
| City of Baldwin City- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eudora - (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 ÷ 68,914 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county