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2024 McPherson County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McPherson County, KS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2797th 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 McPherson 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 | April 4, 2024 10:30 | April 4, 2024 13:00 | 2h 30m | 635 | 1,341 |
| 2 | September 6, 2024 00:15 | September 6, 2024 03:30 | 3h 15m | 633 | 1,749 |
| 3 | November 19, 2024 01:00 | November 19, 2024 04:30 | 3h 30m | 513 | 1,210 |
| 4 | October 29, 2024 21:45 | October 29, 2024 22:15 | 30m | 484 | 122 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 03:15 | January 10, 2024 16:45 | 1d 13h | 240 | 2,602 |
| 6 | May 20, 2024 00:30 | May 23, 2024 00:30 | 3d | 238 | 4,498 |
| 7 | April 6, 2024 21:30 | April 7, 2024 01:00 | 3h 30m | 104 | 150 |
| 8 | April 14, 2024 14:15 | April 14, 2024 16:00 | 1h 45m | 104 | 182 |
| 9 | August 15, 2024 00:30 | August 15, 2024 10:30 | 10h | 102 | 364 |
| 10 | August 1, 2024 00:30 | August 1, 2024 14:15 | 13h 45m | 89 | 1,205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 McPherson 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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2024 | 7.2 hrs | 2.42 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| 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 |
| City of McPherson - (KS) | 2024 | 49 min | 0.32 | 13 min | 0.14 |
| City of Moundridge - (KS) | 2018 | 49 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 1.06 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Galva - (KS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lindsborg - (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 ÷ 22,878 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. McPherson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McPherson 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/mcpherson-county