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2023 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1657th 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 Rice 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 19, 2023 05:15 | August 19, 2023 07:15 | 2h | 2,144 | 2,681 |
| 2 | July 14, 2023 19:15 | July 18, 2023 19:00 | 3d 23h | 713 | 5,504 |
| 3 | April 28, 2023 12:15 | April 28, 2023 17:00 | 4h 45m | 482 | 607 |
| 4 | January 5, 2023 18:45 | January 5, 2023 21:15 | 2h 30m | 284 | 76 |
| 5 | November 19, 2023 20:00 | November 20, 2023 04:45 | 8h 45m | 265 | 550 |
| 6 | August 22, 2023 22:15 | August 22, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 176 | 176 |
| 7 | June 6, 2023 15:45 | June 6, 2023 16:45 | 1h | 114 | 95 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 00:15 | July 13, 2023 01:30 | 1h 15m | 114 | 143 |
| 9 | June 3, 2023 05:00 | June 3, 2023 07:15 | 2h 15m | 97 | 218 |
| 10 | September 24, 2023 14:45 | September 24, 2023 16:15 | 1h 30m | 53 | 53 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county