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2024 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 997th 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 Rice 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 24, 2024 10:45 | June 24, 2024 11:30 | 45m | 2,775 | 2,081 |
| 2 | January 4, 2024 00:30 | January 4, 2024 02:30 | 2h | 2,751 | 3,243 |
| 3 | June 21, 2024 03:30 | June 21, 2024 04:30 | 1h | 2,540 | 2,490 |
| 4 | June 14, 2024 18:00 | June 14, 2024 19:00 | 1h | 829 | 486 |
| 5 | March 31, 2024 03:15 | March 31, 2024 09:45 | 6h 30m | 681 | 2,150 |
| 6 | September 5, 2024 08:45 | September 5, 2024 09:00 | 15m | 555 | 139 |
| 7 | June 4, 2024 20:45 | June 4, 2024 23:15 | 2h 30m | 435 | 683 |
| 8 | June 16, 2024 23:15 | June 16, 2024 23:30 | 15m | 405 | 101 |
| 9 | May 31, 2024 18:00 | May 31, 2024 19:45 | 1h 45m | 396 | 691 |
| 10 | May 30, 2024 14:15 | May 30, 2024 15:00 | 45m | 392 | 99 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 26 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 Rice 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 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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sterling - (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 ÷ 2,664 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. Rice County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rice 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/rice-county