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2023 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2830th 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 McPherson 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 6, 2023 04:30 | August 6, 2023 21:15 | 16h 45m | 1,512 | 5,349 |
| 2 | July 23, 2023 01:00 | July 23, 2023 17:45 | 16h 45m | 692 | 2,302 |
| 3 | December 23, 2023 10:15 | December 23, 2023 16:45 | 6h 30m | 397 | 440 |
| 4 | November 12, 2023 23:00 | November 13, 2023 00:00 | 1h | 91 | 91 |
| 5 | April 20, 2023 06:15 | April 20, 2023 11:00 | 4h 45m | 82 | 206 |
| 6 | May 22, 2023 02:30 | May 22, 2023 04:45 | 2h 15m | 77 | 173 |
| 7 | October 17, 2023 14:45 | October 17, 2023 17:15 | 2h 30m | 49 | 123 |
| 8 | May 14, 2023 00:15 | May 14, 2023 01:15 | 1h | 40 | 40 |
| 9 | June 22, 2023 18:30 | June 22, 2023 19:00 | 30m | 35 | 18 |
| 10 | December 8, 2023 13:30 | December 8, 2023 15:00 | 1h 30m | 21 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.43 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 | 84 min | 0.94 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 | 47 min | 0.41 |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county