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County annual report · FIPS 20183

2024 Smith County, KS Power Outage Report

In 2024, customers in Smith County, KS went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 7,853 customer-hours (Kansas average 4.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 Kansas counties and 1870th of 2,990 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
3.9
2,010 customers
Customer-hours out
7,853
Peak customers out
1,350
Outages ≥1,000 out
1
0 of 10,000+ · 117 total
Longest outage
33d 17h
began February 29, 2024
Rank in state
41st/94
1870th of 2,990 US

Compared with KS, the US and 2023

Smith County, KS average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2024Smith County 3.9 hours, Kansas average 4.3 hours, US average 12.6 hours, Smith County, 2023 8.2 hoursSmith CountySmith County3.9hKansas averageKansas average4.3hUS averageUS average12.6hSmith County, 2023Smith County, 20238.2h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2024; last bar is this county in 2023.

Month by month

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Smith County, KS customer-hours without power by month, 2024Jan 825, Feb 1,264, Mar 1,454, Apr 177, May 172, Jun 448, Jul 2,220, Aug 1,094, Sep 79, Oct 58, Nov 33, Dec 2901k2k3k825Jan1,264Feb1,454Mar177Apr172May448Jun2,220Jul1,094Aug79Sep58Oct33Nov29Dec
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Customer-hours; July was the worst month.

Smith County year over year

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Smith County, KS: average hours without power per customer by year2015: no data; 2016: no data; 2017: no data; 2018: no data; 2019: no data; 2020: 7.3h, coverage 79%; 2021: 6.8h, coverage 80%; 2022: 2.2h, coverage 59%; 2023: 8.2h; 2024: 3.9h; 2025: 12.9h0510150%50%100%n/a2015n/a2016n/a2017n/a2018n/a20197.3h20206.8h20212.2h20228.2h20233.9h202412.9h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Smith County, 2024

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1February 29, 2024 01:15April 2, 2024 19:0033d 17h1,3501,865
2July 20, 2024 02:45August 20, 2024 06:4531d 4h5553,199
3June 15, 2024 05:15June 15, 2024 07:001h 45m219382
4January 14, 2024 23:15February 11, 2024 09:1527d 10h216858
5May 2, 2024 07:45May 2, 2024 08:3045m142106
6October 18, 2024 20:00October 18, 2024 20:1515m9724
7April 8, 2024 14:15April 8, 2024 20:156h1620
8February 11, 2024 16:15February 28, 2024 23:4517d 7h13507
9October 25, 2024 13:30October 25, 2024 14:301h1212
10April 9, 2024 14:15April 9, 2024 17:002h 45m118

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 Smith County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc-----
Southern Public Power District-----
Rolling Hills Electric Coop-----

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 ÷ 2,010 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. Smith County has data for 2020–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/kansas/smith-county

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