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2023 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 3,888 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2022nd 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 Rush 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 11, 2023 04:00 | July 11, 2023 05:45 | 1h 45m | 318 | 476 |
| 2 | September 7, 2023 21:30 | September 8, 2023 02:00 | 4h 30m | 294 | 1,164 |
| 3 | December 26, 2023 03:00 | December 26, 2023 07:30 | 4h 30m | 174 | 783 |
| 4 | January 20, 2023 03:00 | January 20, 2023 07:30 | 4h 30m | 156 | 431 |
| 5 | January 15, 2023 22:15 | January 16, 2023 03:00 | 4h 45m | 89 | 423 |
| 6 | May 14, 2023 22:15 | May 15, 2023 00:00 | 1h 45m | 52 | 79 |
| 7 | October 10, 2023 22:30 | October 11, 2023 00:30 | 2h | 25 | 44 |
| 8 | November 6, 2023 15:15 | November 6, 2023 19:30 | 4h 15m | 19 | 81 |
| 9 | June 19, 2023 12:45 | June 19, 2023 18:30 | 5h 45m | 18 | 40 |
| 10 | June 20, 2023 23:30 | June 21, 2023 00:45 | 1h 15m | 17 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.43 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county