Power Out Map
– 0% of Edwards out 0 customers out in Kansas

Power outage history

Edwards County Kansas

7.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

12th most of 81 in Kansas close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 17, 2017 99% of customers out · 90% back in 2.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.3h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.0days Jan 15, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 30% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,025 ORNL customer model · 6 well-covered years

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 Edwards's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Edwards, hours without power per customer

EdwardsUS median countyKansas average
0 10 20 30 40 50 ’15 5.3 ’16 65 ’17 6.4 ’18 9.1 ’19 4.0 ’20 ’21 18 ’22 ’23 4.7 ’24 1.9 ’25 US 6.6 KS 3.0

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
Jan 15, 2017 Ice storm 1,998 99% 6.0 d 2.4 d 131k
May 17, 2019 Tornadoes 1,861 92% 10 h 9.8 h 15k
Mar 18, 2022 No storm report 1,368 68% 29 h 5.5 h 14k
Dec 15, 2021 No storm report 1,535 76% 21 h 3.2 h 7.4k
Mar 22, 2022 No storm report 256 13% 2.6 d 2.2 d 7.4k
May 17, 2022 No storm report 1,848 91% 4.2 h 8.2 h 6.8k
Jun 21, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,906 94% 4.8 h 1.2 h 5.5k
Jan 8, 2024 No storm report 1,262 62% 9.0 h 2.8 h 5.2k
Nov 27, 2015 Winter storm 851 42% 14 h 14 h 5.0k
Apr 17, 2018 Windstorm 1,893 93% 6.2 h 30 min 3.3k
Sep 14, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,854 92% 2.0 h 12 min 2.6k
Nov 14, 2018 No storm report 1,273 63% 1.8 h 8.8 h 2.1k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Edwards from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 70%
  • Tornadoes 17%
  • Thunderstorms 9.2%
  • Windstorm 3.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Edwards

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
Midwest Energy Inc Cooperative 581 314 2.68 12.0 30k
Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc KS – – – 15.9 25k
Victory Electric Coop Assn Inc Cooperative 356 126 – 12.3 14k

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

Across Kansas

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Kansas 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 2,025 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 →