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2023 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2162nd 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 Riley 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 16, 2023 22:30 | August 17, 2023 03:00 | 4h 30m | 3,943 | 9,174 |
| 2 | August 31, 2023 12:45 | August 31, 2023 15:15 | 2h 30m | 2,121 | 600 |
| 3 | January 3, 2023 01:00 | January 3, 2023 02:00 | 1h | 1,851 | 1,851 |
| 4 | June 3, 2023 13:15 | June 3, 2023 16:00 | 2h 45m | 1,723 | 545 |
| 5 | August 10, 2023 17:30 | August 10, 2023 21:45 | 4h 15m | 1,419 | 2,655 |
| 6 | December 7, 2023 10:00 | December 7, 2023 16:45 | 6h 45m | 1,243 | 802 |
| 7 | June 2, 2023 12:30 | June 2, 2023 12:45 | 15m | 1,238 | 310 |
| 8 | March 17, 2023 02:45 | March 17, 2023 08:00 | 5h 15m | 1,162 | 700 |
| 9 | May 19, 2023 15:45 | May 19, 2023 17:15 | 1h 30m | 802 | 204 |
| 10 | August 15, 2023 20:45 | August 15, 2023 22:45 | 2h | 778 | 786 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop 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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county