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2024 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 618th 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 Elk 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 | October 16, 2024 18:45 | October 16, 2024 21:15 | 2h 30m | 1,196 | 665 |
| 2 | April 27, 2024 21:45 | April 28, 2024 15:30 | 17h 45m | 890 | 12K |
| 3 | May 7, 2024 01:45 | May 7, 2024 20:15 | 18h 30m | 857 | 8,676 |
| 4 | October 8, 2024 14:45 | October 8, 2024 19:45 | 5h | 849 | 1,643 |
| 5 | June 8, 2024 04:45 | June 8, 2024 06:45 | 2h | 215 | 373 |
| 6 | July 17, 2024 02:45 | July 17, 2024 03:00 | 15m | 85 | 21 |
| 7 | May 20, 2024 08:00 | May 20, 2024 10:30 | 2h 30m | 69 | 173 |
| 8 | October 20, 2024 12:15 | October 20, 2024 15:45 | 3h 30m | 68 | 222 |
| 9 | June 7, 2024 16:15 | June 7, 2024 20:30 | 4h 15m | 39 | 26 |
| 10 | August 15, 2024 07:30 | August 15, 2024 14:15 | 6h 45m | 33 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 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 Elk 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 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county