Power outage history
Cloud County Kansas
3.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
44th most of 81 in Kansas 49% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Cloud's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Cloud, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 441 | 13% | 20 h | 30 min | 5.7k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Winter storm | 319 | 9% | 8.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.3k |
| Apr 18, 2024 | No storm report | 325 | 10% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 2.2k |
| Aug 5, 2023 | No storm report | 354 | 10% | 5.8 h | 13 h | 1.9k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 859 | 25% | 3.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.2k |
| Aug 9, 2020 | No storm report | 324 | 9% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.1k |
| Dec 2, 2022 | No storm report | 294 | 9% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 1.0k |
| Jun 3, 2023 | No storm report | 289 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 939 |
| Dec 29, 2020 | No storm report | 325 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 894 |
| Jul 28, 2022 | No storm report | 289 | 8% | 3.0 h | 48 min | 859 |
| Dec 3, 2020 | No storm report | 323 | 9% | 2.5 h | 3.0 h | 808 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | No storm report | 314 | 9% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 785 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | No storm report | 64 | 2% | 14 h | – | 778 |
| May 28, 2015 | No storm report | 340 | 10% | 2.2 h | 2.5 h | 765 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | No storm report | 745 | 22% | 1.0 h | 12 min | 741 |
| Aug 14, 2018 | No storm report | 329 | 10% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 740 |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 422 | 12% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 733 |
| May 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 272 | 8% | 2.5 h | 12 min | 660 |
| Nov 25, 2020 | No storm report | 322 | 9% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 644 |
| May 24, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 274 | 8% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 628 |
| Feb 2, 2016 | No storm report | 342 | 10% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 598 |
| Jun 27, 2021 | No storm report | 327 | 10% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 572 |
| Nov 22, 2020 | No storm report | 349 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 561 |
| May 27, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 246 | 7% | 5.5 h | 6.8 h | 550 |
| Sep 29, 2023 | No storm report | 311 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 543 |
| Jun 15, 2024 | No storm report | 260 | 8% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 520 |
| Feb 26, 2023 | No storm report | 663 | 19% | 48 min | 12 min | 496 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 321 | 9% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 478 |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 748 | 22% | 48 min | 30 min | 474 |
| May 15, 2022 | No storm report | 298 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 463 |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Cloud from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 69%
- Thunderstorms 23%
- Winter storm 6.9%
- Flooding 1.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Cloud
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Kansas territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | Investor Owned | 126 | 80 | 1.17 | 14.6 | 344k |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | KS | 197 | 49 | 1.39 | 15.5 | 91k |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | KS | – | – | – | 17.3 | 74k |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.6 | 70k |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 383 | 157 | – | 14.8 | 13k |
| City of Glasco | KS | – | – | – | – | 2.3k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 3,413 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →