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2023 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 4,259 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2023rd 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 Elk 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 10, 2023 15:00 | April 11, 2023 16:30 | 1d 1h | 208 | 612 |
| 2 | October 5, 2023 00:15 | October 5, 2023 04:30 | 4h 15m | 92 | 390 |
| 3 | October 5, 2023 08:45 | October 5, 2023 11:45 | 3h | 91 | 273 |
| 4 | August 6, 2023 06:15 | August 6, 2023 12:45 | 6h 30m | 87 | 370 |
| 5 | August 9, 2023 09:45 | August 9, 2023 20:00 | 10h 15m | 87 | 272 |
| 6 | August 25, 2023 21:00 | August 25, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 87 | 22 |
| 7 | September 19, 2023 13:00 | September 19, 2023 13:15 | 15m | 86 | 22 |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 22:15 | July 15, 2023 04:30 | 6h 15m | 82 | 451 |
| 9 | March 31, 2023 18:15 | April 1, 2023 19:45 | 1d 1h | 81 | 356 |
| 10 | May 9, 2023 22:30 | May 9, 2023 23:30 | 1h | 65 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county