County annual report · FIPS 20165
2024 Rush County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rush County, KS went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 8,125 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1450th 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 Rush 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 13, 2024 20:45 | June 14, 2024 18:30 | 21h 45m | 523 | 3,171 |
| 2 | June 19, 2024 00:00 | June 19, 2024 18:15 | 18h 15m | 432 | 407 |
| 3 | September 6, 2024 04:15 | September 6, 2024 08:15 | 4h | 431 | 1,281 |
| 4 | July 3, 2024 17:45 | July 3, 2024 18:15 | 30m | 292 | 146 |
| 5 | June 3, 2024 17:45 | June 3, 2024 19:15 | 1h 30m | 132 | 132 |
| 6 | February 3, 2024 02:00 | February 3, 2024 03:45 | 1h 45m | 92 | 161 |
| 7 | March 4, 2024 17:45 | March 6, 2024 22:30 | 2d 4h | 92 | 841 |
| 8 | January 31, 2024 20:45 | January 31, 2024 22:00 | 1h 15m | 69 | 40 |
| 9 | May 22, 2024 14:15 | May 22, 2024 21:15 | 7h | 68 | 50 |
| 10 | May 21, 2024 01:30 | May 21, 2024 02:30 | 1h | 60 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 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 Rush 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | 2024 | 7.2 hrs | 2.42 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Crosse - (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 ÷ 1,399 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. Rush County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rush 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/rush-county