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2024 Riley County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Riley County, KS went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 2005th 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 Riley 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 | February 25, 2024 14:30 | February 25, 2024 19:00 | 4h 30m | 6,779 | 8,500 |
| 2 | June 28, 2024 23:30 | June 29, 2024 18:15 | 18h 45m | 5,860 | 6,122 |
| 3 | April 27, 2024 19:45 | April 28, 2024 07:30 | 11h 45m | 5,830 | 6,999 |
| 4 | December 14, 2024 07:15 | December 14, 2024 07:30 | 15m | 2,081 | 520 |
| 5 | January 2, 2024 15:45 | January 2, 2024 18:15 | 2h 30m | 2,072 | 709 |
| 6 | August 30, 2024 12:15 | August 30, 2024 14:15 | 2h | 2,064 | 523 |
| 7 | May 1, 2024 00:15 | May 1, 2024 03:15 | 3h | 1,993 | 514 |
| 8 | September 19, 2024 18:30 | September 19, 2024 21:15 | 2h 45m | 1,834 | 1,885 |
| 9 | November 18, 2024 17:15 | November 18, 2024 21:15 | 4h | 1,614 | 2,056 |
| 10 | April 6, 2024 18:00 | April 7, 2024 00:00 | 6h | 1,592 | 865 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Riley 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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.41 | 3.9 hrs | 2.25 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop 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 ÷ 18,190 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. Riley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riley 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/riley-county