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2023 Jefferson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jefferson County, KS went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1497th 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 Jefferson 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 20:00 | July 17, 2023 11:30 | 2d 15h | 2,229 | 17K |
| 2 | July 31, 2023 00:30 | July 31, 2023 20:45 | 20h 15m | 1,495 | 6,951 |
| 3 | July 1, 2023 01:45 | July 2, 2023 18:30 | 1d 16h | 1,450 | 14K |
| 4 | February 27, 2023 06:45 | February 27, 2023 16:15 | 9h 30m | 907 | 1,897 |
| 5 | June 24, 2023 14:00 | June 24, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 690 | 173 |
| 6 | January 9, 2023 20:30 | January 9, 2023 21:00 | 30m | 474 | 218 |
| 7 | May 25, 2023 05:15 | May 25, 2023 13:00 | 7h 45m | 419 | 3,247 |
| 8 | June 28, 2023 21:15 | June 29, 2023 01:15 | 4h | 419 | 1,572 |
| 9 | August 13, 2023 11:45 | August 13, 2023 22:15 | 10h 30m | 321 | 121 |
| 10 | October 24, 2023 21:00 | October 24, 2023 22:00 | 1h | 319 | 240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Jefferson 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 | - |
| Brown-Atchison E C A 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 ÷ 10,486 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county