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2023 Russell County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Russell County, KS went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1820th 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 Russell 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 | December 12, 2023 15:00 | December 12, 2023 21:45 | 6h 45m | 575 | 3,848 |
| 2 | July 16, 2023 22:30 | July 21, 2023 14:00 | 4d 15h | 442 | 14K |
| 3 | October 30, 2023 22:30 | October 31, 2023 00:00 | 1h 30m | 442 | 442 |
| 4 | July 14, 2023 18:30 | July 14, 2023 20:00 | 1h 30m | 441 | 661 |
| 5 | August 9, 2023 08:15 | August 9, 2023 11:00 | 2h 45m | 202 | 458 |
| 6 | June 23, 2023 16:00 | June 23, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 66 | 17 |
| 7 | July 10, 2023 21:15 | July 10, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 64 | 48 |
| 8 | August 2, 2023 13:30 | August 2, 2023 18:15 | 4h 45m | 53 | 18 |
| 9 | November 7, 2023 15:15 | November 7, 2023 19:15 | 4h | 53 | 212 |
| 10 | June 29, 2023 13:15 | June 29, 2023 18:15 | 5h | 51 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Russell 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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lucas- (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Luray - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russell - (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 ÷ 5,948 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county