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2024 Cherokee County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cherokee County, KS went without power for an average of 11.2 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 841st 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 Cherokee 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 9, 2024 17:30 | June 10, 2024 04:15 | 10h 45m | 1,642 | 15K |
| 2 | June 25, 2024 03:30 | June 25, 2024 05:30 | 2h | 378 | 683 |
| 3 | October 16, 2024 17:15 | October 16, 2024 17:30 | 15m | 377 | 94 |
| 4 | December 19, 2024 22:15 | December 20, 2024 00:15 | 2h | 376 | 752 |
| 5 | July 17, 2024 10:45 | July 17, 2024 14:45 | 4h | 369 | 853 |
| 6 | August 17, 2024 01:00 | August 19, 2024 01:00 | 2d | 320 | 8,697 |
| 7 | November 3, 2024 08:15 | November 3, 2024 17:45 | 9h 30m | 313 | 1,891 |
| 8 | July 5, 2024 03:45 | July 5, 2024 06:45 | 3h | 208 | 544 |
| 9 | March 4, 2024 16:15 | March 4, 2024 17:30 | 1h 15m | 185 | 231 |
| 10 | October 5, 2024 12:45 | October 5, 2024 14:45 | 2h | 177 | 354 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 14 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 Cherokee 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 Kansas South, Inc | 2024 | 3.4 hrs | 1.40 | 87 min | 0.94 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2024 | 9.1 hrs | 1.95 | 1.9 hrs | 0.98 |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.42 |
| Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 0.17 | 1.8 hrs | 0.15 |
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 ÷ 2,982 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county