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2024 Cowley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cowley County, KS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2686th 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 Cowley 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 | November 10, 2024 14:15 | November 10, 2024 14:30 | 15m | 1,290 | 323 |
| 2 | October 13, 2024 03:45 | October 13, 2024 21:15 | 17h 30m | 1,103 | 1,406 |
| 3 | May 7, 2024 01:15 | May 7, 2024 09:45 | 8h 30m | 1,034 | 993 |
| 4 | May 26, 2024 00:30 | May 27, 2024 12:45 | 1d 12h | 953 | 4,326 |
| 5 | November 18, 2024 12:45 | November 18, 2024 14:30 | 1h 45m | 762 | 954 |
| 6 | October 18, 2024 13:00 | October 18, 2024 16:30 | 3h 30m | 732 | 1,562 |
| 7 | November 29, 2024 18:45 | November 30, 2024 00:30 | 5h 45m | 678 | 2,238 |
| 8 | June 9, 2024 18:45 | June 9, 2024 19:15 | 30m | 366 | 113 |
| 9 | May 1, 2024 00:00 | May 1, 2024 20:30 | 20h 30m | 262 | 1,756 |
| 10 | September 16, 2024 21:45 | September 16, 2024 23:15 | 1h 30m | 149 | 222 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Cowley 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 South, Inc | 2024 | 3.4 hrs | 1.40 | 87 min | 0.94 |
| 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 Udall - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winfield - (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 ÷ 21,126 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. Cowley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowley 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/cowley-county