Power outage history
Gove County Kansas
2.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
55% 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 Gove'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 2.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Gove, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2017 | Winter storm | 1,152 | 93% | 3.3 d | 27 h | 24k |
| May 18, 2025 | Tornadoes | 760 | 62% | 4.8 d | 43 h | 13k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 766 | 62% | 16 h | 14 h | 10k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Wildfire | 830 | 67% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 3.1k |
| Aug 6, 2020 | No storm report | 741 | 60% | 3.5 h | 2.2 h | 1.9k |
| May 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 535 | 43% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 1.6k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 465 | 38% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.3k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | No storm report | 533 | 43% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.2k |
| Nov 29, 2019 | No storm report | 534 | 43% | 2.5 h | 2.0 h | 1.2k |
| Nov 30, 2018 | No storm report | 538 | 44% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.1k |
| Jul 3, 2024 | No storm report | 538 | 44% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.1k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | No storm report | 532 | 43% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.1k |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Wildfire | 486 | 39% | 6.5 h | 30 min | 1.1k |
| Nov 17, 2015 | No storm report | 1,234 | 100% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 1.0k |
| Aug 5, 2021 | No storm report | 320 | 26% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.0k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 359 | 29% | 2.8 h | 1.2 h | 984 |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 537 | 44% | 5.5 h | 1.2 h | 800 |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Tornadoes | 224 | 18% | 6.8 h | 2.8 h | 737 |
| Nov 4, 2023 | No storm report | 623 | 50% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 731 |
| Mar 24, 2021 | No storm report | 165 | 13% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 701 |
| Aug 4, 2022 | No storm report | 114 | 9% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 570 |
| May 11, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 536 | 43% | 1.0 h | 1.2 h | 536 |
| Apr 26, 2017 | No storm report | 155 | 13% | 3.2 h | 2.2 h | 484 |
| Jun 29, 2018 | No storm report | 63 | 5% | 7.2 h | 7.2 h | 457 |
| Jul 18, 2021 | No storm report | 359 | 29% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 432 |
| Jan 2, 2020 | No storm report | 147 | 12% | 3.0 h | 1.8 h | 426 |
| Mar 14, 2021 | No storm report | 244 | 20% | 2.8 h | 3.8 h | 424 |
| Aug 7, 2021 | No storm report | 320 | 26% | 1.2 h | 2.2 h | 400 |
| Jul 4, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 290 | 24% | 1.5 h | 30 min | 338 |
| Jul 26, 2021 | No storm report | 362 | 29% | 2.2 h | – | 337 |
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 Gove from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 31%
- Tornadoes 27%
- Winter storm 24%
- Wildfire 8.3%
- Thunderstorms 5.8%
- Windstorm 3.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Gove
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 |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | KS | – | – | – | 12.3 | 24k |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.6 | 5.8k |
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.
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 1,234 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 →