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2025 Elk County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Elk County, KS went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 3,226 customer-hours (Kansas average 2.9 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 99 Kansas counties and 2385th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with KS, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elk County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 5, 2025 15:15 | January 5, 2025 21:00 | 5h 45m | 160 | 831 |
| 2 | May 30, 2025 22:15 | May 31, 2025 01:15 | 3h | 135 | 231 |
| 3 | September 22, 2025 16:00 | September 22, 2025 18:45 | 2h 45m | 90 | 119 |
| 4 | March 15, 2025 07:00 | March 15, 2025 07:15 | 15m | 69 | 17 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 08:30 | March 15, 2025 09:00 | 30m | 69 | 35 |
| 6 | July 30, 2025 23:15 | July 31, 2025 00:15 | 1h | 68 | 68 |
| 7 | March 30, 2025 07:00 | March 30, 2025 10:15 | 3h 15m | 40 | 115 |
| 8 | July 31, 2025 03:15 | July 31, 2025 11:45 | 8h 30m | 36 | 175 |
| 9 | July 22, 2025 21:15 | July 22, 2025 23:30 | 2h 15m | 34 | 76 |
| 10 | February 26, 2025 16:00 | February 26, 2025 20:45 | 4h 45m | 16 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 2 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 Elk County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Evergy Kansas South, Inc | 2024 | 3.4 hrs | 1.40 | 87 min | 0.94 |
| Caney Valley El Coop Assn, 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,533 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk County, KS annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/kansas/elk-county