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2025 Rice County, KS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rice County, KS went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Kansas average 2.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 99 Kansas counties and 1788th 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 Rice 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 | June 16, 2025 23:45 | June 17, 2025 02:00 | 2h 15m | 703 | 1,426 |
| 2 | January 30, 2025 06:00 | January 30, 2025 09:30 | 3h 30m | 685 | 2,121 |
| 3 | June 17, 2025 09:00 | June 17, 2025 11:30 | 2h 30m | 518 | 1,030 |
| 4 | January 27, 2025 03:30 | January 27, 2025 03:45 | 15m | 374 | 94 |
| 5 | June 24, 2025 12:45 | June 24, 2025 20:45 | 8h | 372 | 368 |
| 6 | July 9, 2025 22:30 | July 9, 2025 23:00 | 30m | 372 | 186 |
| 7 | November 18, 2025 15:00 | November 18, 2025 21:00 | 6h | 360 | 1,296 |
| 8 | December 18, 2025 18:45 | December 18, 2025 20:45 | 2h | 286 | 74 |
| 9 | April 5, 2025 17:45 | April 5, 2025 20:00 | 2h 15m | 196 | 441 |
| 10 | July 25, 2025 06:00 | July 25, 2025 08:00 | 2h | 190 | 380 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 10 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 Rice 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 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 2025; 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, 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/rice-county