Power outage history
Dickinson County Kansas
3.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50th most of 81 in Kansas 54% 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 Dickinson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Dickinson, 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 | 4,739 | 64% | 3.3 d | 18 h | 62k |
| Nov 28, 2015 | Ice storm | 1,219 | 16% | 25 h | 6.8 h | 7.4k |
| Dec 7, 2017 | No storm report | 3,290 | 44% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 4.8k |
| Sep 21, 2023 | No storm report | 2,899 | 39% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 4.3k |
| Jun 21, 2025 | No storm report | 775 | 10% | 7.2 h | 5.0 h | 4.2k |
| Nov 29, 2015 | No storm report | 158 | 2% | 29 h | – | 3.3k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,525 | 34% | 3.8 h | 1.8 h | 3.3k |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,729 | 23% | 5.8 h | 2.5 h | 3.2k |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 776 | 10% | 8.5 h | 8.0 h | 2.9k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,189 | 16% | 5.8 h | 4.8 h | 2.9k |
| Jun 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 963 | 13% | 6.8 h | 6.0 h | 2.9k |
| Jul 15, 2016 | No storm report | 3,084 | 41% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 2.7k |
| Jun 1, 2018 | No storm report | 1,635 | 22% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.7k |
| Aug 23, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,660 | 22% | 4.5 h | 12 min | 2.5k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 334 | 4% | 12 h | – | 2.0k |
| Jul 3, 2025 | No storm report | 1,442 | 19% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 1.8k |
| Jun 3, 2025 | No storm report | 777 | 10% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.7k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,114 | 15% | 1.5 h | 12 min | 1.7k |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 905 | 12% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 1.7k |
| Jul 14, 2023 | No storm report | 791 | 11% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.6k |
| Jan 12, 2020 | No storm report | 324 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 866 | 12% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 1.6k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 467 | 6% | 8.5 h | 4.8 h | 1.5k |
| Aug 31, 2024 | No storm report | 1,474 | 20% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.5k |
| Apr 22, 2021 | No storm report | 2,927 | 39% | 30 min | 12 h | 1.5k |
| Dec 3, 2016 | No storm report | 1,633 | 22% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 1.4k |
| May 11, 2016 | No storm report | 762 | 10% | 3.0 h | 48 min | 1.4k |
| May 13, 2024 | No storm report | 784 | 11% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.4k |
| May 2, 2018 | No storm report | 256 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 1.3k |
| Aug 9, 2020 | No storm report | 519 | 7% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 1.3k |
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 Dickinson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 61%
- No storm on record 38%
- Winter storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Dickinson
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 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.6 | 70k |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | KS | 373 | 246 | 2.77 | 15.8 | 56k |
| City of Herington | KS | – | – | – | – | 9.5k |
| City of Chapman | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.6k |
| City of Enterprise | KS | – | – | – | – | 3.0k |
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.
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 7,456 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 →