State · EIA Form 861 · KS
Kansas
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Kansas utilities come from the federal annual survey. 15 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 156 and 365 minute tercile cuts (51 states with averages).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Kansas
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Kansas sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 283.3 minutes across 16 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning City of Coffeyville - (KS) lowest at 9.4 to City of Kansas City - (KS) highest at 738.6.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Kansas 283.3
- Virginia 279.3
- Alabama 296.1
- Massachusetts 259.3
- Pennsylvania 255.3
- Louisiana 240.8
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Kansas vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
16 Top 51% more reporting utilities than 49% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability
All 16 electric utilities in Kansas with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Kansas
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Kansas utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Kansas
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Coffeyville - (KS) | Municipal | 9.4 | 0.08 | 5,755 |
| 2 | City of Garden City | Municipal | 17.4 | 0.42 | 11,867 |
| 3 | Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 51.9 | 0.49 | 7,573 |
| 4 | Evergy Kansas South, Inc | IOU | 113.7 | 1.07 | 342,905 |
| 5 | City of McPherson - (KS) | Municipal | 126.6 | 1.02 | 8,954 |
| 6 | Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (KS) | Cooperative | 156.5 | - | 16,578 |
| 7 | Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | IOU | 197.9 | 1.26 | 395,731 |
| 8 | Midwest Energy Inc - (KS) | Cooperative | 206.4 | 1.51 | 50,335 |
| 9 | Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 220.0 | - | 24,637 |
| 10 | Victory Electric Coop Assn Inc | Cooperative | 238.5 | - | 20,235 |
| 11 | Southern Pioneer Electric Company | Cooperative | 253.0 | - | 17,051 |
| 12 | Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 357.3 | 1.26 | 32,411 |
| 13 | FreeState Electric Coop | Cooperative | 402.7 | - | 18,856 |
| 14 | Evergy Metro | IOU | 543.9 | 1.38 | 305,816 |
| 15 | City of Kansas City - (KS) | Municipal | 738.6 | 2.88 | 67,713 |
| 16 | City of Chanute | Municipal | - | - | 5,598 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Kansas. Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (16 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (1.3M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Kansas roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Kansas: City of Coffeyville - (KS) (9.4 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Kansas: City of Kansas City - (KS) (738.6 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (8 of 16 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Virginia (279.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Alabama (296.1 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Massachusetts (259.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Pennsylvania (255.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Louisiana (240.8 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.