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2024 Butler County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Butler County, KS went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 109K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2192nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 5, 2024 01:15 | June 5, 2024 09:00 | 7h 45m | 4,774 | 4,267 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 05:30 | January 10, 2024 21:30 | 1d 16h | 2,338 | 17K |
| 3 | August 15, 2024 01:00 | August 16, 2024 15:30 | 1d 14h | 1,766 | 13K |
| 4 | August 14, 2024 03:15 | August 14, 2024 09:15 | 6h | 1,698 | 1,439 |
| 5 | February 17, 2024 11:00 | February 17, 2024 15:30 | 4h 30m | 1,659 | 5,293 |
| 6 | August 18, 2024 16:30 | August 19, 2024 11:00 | 18h 30m | 1,649 | 2,935 |
| 7 | May 4, 2024 07:15 | May 5, 2024 02:30 | 19h 15m | 1,308 | 4,041 |
| 8 | October 13, 2024 04:15 | October 13, 2024 06:30 | 2h 15m | 1,307 | 2,941 |
| 9 | October 6, 2024 04:45 | October 6, 2024 07:30 | 2h 45m | 1,281 | 3,402 |
| 10 | November 9, 2024 00:30 | November 9, 2024 08:15 | 7h 45m | 1,222 | 3,208 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 55 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 1.52 | 83 min | 0.93 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2024 | 5.3 hrs | 1.65 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2024 | 3.4 hrs | 1.40 | 87 min | 0.94 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc - (KS) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Augusta - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,152 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, KS annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/kansas/butler-county