Power outage history
Crawford County Kansas
1.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
74th most of 81 in Kansas 84% 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 Crawford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Crawford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,903 | 11% | 16 h | 13 h | 24k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,746 | 14% | 22 h | 19 h | 21k |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,199 | 4% | 18 h | – | 11k |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,637 | 8% | 5.8 h | 5.2 h | 6.5k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 2,000 | 6% | 5.2 h | 4.2 h | 5.9k |
| Apr 22, 2021 | No storm report | 10,386 | 30% | 30 min | 30 min | 5.2k |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,787 | 5% | 5.2 h | 8.0 h | 4.6k |
| Jun 26, 2023 | No storm report | 803 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 4.5k |
| May 19, 2017 | No storm report | 1,911 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 3.7k |
| Oct 25, 2024 | No storm report | 2,030 | 6% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 3.3k |
| Dec 27, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,015 | 6% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 3.1k |
| May 25, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,489 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 28, 2021 | Flooding | 1,612 | 5% | 1.8 h | – | 2.2k |
| May 20, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,408 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jul 22, 2017 | No storm report | 451 | 1% | 5.2 h | – | 2.1k |
| Sep 20, 2023 | No storm report | 1,065 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 2.1k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 962 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 2.0k |
| Mar 22, 2023 | No storm report | 1,182 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.9k |
| Sep 16, 2023 | No storm report | 851 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 1.9k |
| Nov 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,960 | 6% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 1.8k |
| May 20, 2018 | No storm report | 885 | 3% | 2.0 h | – | 1.7k |
| Sep 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,693 | 5% | 1.0 h | – | 1.7k |
| Jul 6, 2016 | No storm report | 742 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 1.5k |
| May 31, 2020 | No storm report | 426 | 1% | 3.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jul 6, 2024 | No storm report | 914 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 1.4k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 909 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 1.4k |
| May 28, 2016 | No storm report | 861 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jan 16, 2019 | No storm report | 541 | 2% | 2.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| Apr 25, 2018 | No storm report | 967 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 12, 2016 | No storm report | 944 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 1.2k |
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 Crawford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 50%
- No storm on record 46%
- Flooding 2.2%
- Tornadoes 1.6%
- Winter storm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Crawford
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 South, Inc | Investor Owned | 244 | 84 | 1.39 | 14.5 | 306k |
| Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc | KS | 417 | 168 | 2.54 | 14.4 | 113k |
| City of Girard | KS | – | – | – | 14.3 | 14k |
| City of Arma | KS | – | – | – | – | 11k |
| City of Mulberry | KS | – | – | – | – | 1.8k |
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
- Vernon, MO 9.8 h
- Barton, MO 7.1 h
- Cherokee 2.8 h
- Bourbon 2.5 h
- Labette 1.7 h
- Jasper, MO 1.7 h
- Crawford (this county) 1.1 h
- Neosho 0.4 h
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 34,108 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 →