Power outage history
Jackson County Kansas
21hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
1st most of 81 in Kansas 3.2× 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 Jackson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jackson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2018 | No storm report | 6,676 | 100% | 2.7 d | 2.3 d | 250k |
| Aug 28, 2018 | No storm report | 6,676 | 100% | 39 h | 24 h | 93k |
| Jun 26, 2018 | No storm report | 6,676 | 100% | 25 h | 15 h | 58k |
| May 2, 2018 | No storm report | 6,676 | 100% | 23 h | 11 h | 34k |
| Oct 7, 2018 | No storm report | 3,338 | 50% | 28 h | 1.5 h | 26k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 4,158 | 62% | 17 h | 8.5 h | 25k |
| Jul 14, 2018 | No storm report | 6,593 | 99% | 9.5 h | 2.5 h | 21k |
| Jun 11, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,358 | 50% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 13k |
| Jul 2, 2018 | No storm report | 5,682 | 85% | 2.8 h | 2.0 h | 12k |
| Jun 19, 2018 | No storm report | 6,676 | 100% | 7.2 h | 3.2 h | 12k |
| Aug 19, 2018 | No storm report | 2,704 | 41% | 13 h | 3.0 h | 11k |
| Aug 7, 2018 | No storm report | 5,276 | 79% | 8.2 h | 2.2 h | 10k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 713 | 11% | 32 h | 24 h | 9.6k |
| Jul 12, 2018 | No storm report | 1,575 | 24% | 14 h | 9.5 h | 9.2k |
| Jul 19, 2018 | No storm report | 2,454 | 37% | 13 h | 2.0 h | 9.0k |
| Aug 14, 2018 | No storm report | 3,836 | 57% | 6.5 h | 6.0 h | 8.6k |
| Oct 8, 2018 | No storm report | 6,355 | 95% | 6.0 h | 48 min | 8.1k |
| Nov 30, 2018 | No storm report | 5,392 | 81% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 7.3k |
| May 23, 2018 | No storm report | 4,510 | 68% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 7.3k |
| Apr 25, 2018 | No storm report | 2,362 | 35% | 11 h | 11 h | 6.6k |
| Sep 18, 2018 | No storm report | 3,520 | 53% | 6.2 h | 30 min | 6.2k |
| May 28, 2018 | No storm report | 1,039 | 16% | 8.2 h | 4.0 h | 6.1k |
| Oct 6, 2018 | No storm report | 2,340 | 35% | 4.2 h | 3.2 h | 6.0k |
| Jul 11, 2018 | No storm report | 2,177 | 33% | 5.0 h | 2.0 h | 6.0k |
| Aug 17, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,287 | 19% | 16 h | 10 h | 5.9k |
| Dec 8, 2018 | No storm report | 2,333 | 35% | 3.0 h | 2.2 h | 5.9k |
| Nov 8, 2018 | No storm report | 960 | 14% | 17 h | 10 h | 5.6k |
| Aug 30, 2018 | No storm report | 1,622 | 24% | 15 h | 3.8 h | 4.9k |
| Aug 25, 2018 | No storm report | 2,889 | 43% | 5.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.7k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 1,990 | 30% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 4.6k |
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 Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 92%
- Thunderstorms 4.8%
- Winter storm 2.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jackson
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 |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.6 | 70k |
| Nemaha-Marshall E C A, Inc | KS | 181 | 181 | 1.29 | 14.1 | 38k |
| Brown-Atchison E C A Inc | KS | – | – | – | 14.1 | 31k |
| City of Holton | KS | – | – | – | 9.4 | 19k |
| FreeState Electric Coop | Cooperative | 335 | 327 | – | 17.8 | 18k |
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 6,676 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 →