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2023 Smith County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Smith County, KS went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1003rd 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 Smith 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 | January 5, 2023 03:00 | January 6, 2023 15:45 | 1d 12h | 1,472 | 3,409 |
| 2 | June 20, 2023 07:15 | June 20, 2023 08:45 | 1h 30m | 857 | 976 |
| 3 | May 15, 2023 12:00 | May 15, 2023 13:15 | 1h 15m | 643 | 610 |
| 4 | July 10, 2023 16:30 | August 25, 2023 18:15 | 46d 1h | 510 | 6,994 |
| 5 | April 28, 2023 19:00 | April 28, 2023 20:00 | 1h | 359 | 259 |
| 6 | May 8, 2023 01:00 | May 8, 2023 12:45 | 11h 45m | 357 | 348 |
| 7 | July 2, 2023 01:00 | July 2, 2023 02:15 | 1h 15m | 178 | 182 |
| 8 | December 8, 2023 10:15 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 23d 13h | 148 | 763 |
| 9 | June 24, 2023 13:15 | June 24, 2023 13:45 | 30m | 19 | 10 |
| 10 | June 21, 2023 14:45 | June 21, 2023 15:30 | 45m | 14 | 11 |
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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,010 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. Smith County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/kansas/smith-county