Power outage history
Lincoln County Kansas
1.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
85% 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 Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 59 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lincoln, 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 | 253 | 30% | 45 h | 44 h | 5.7k |
| May 1, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 287 | 34% | 14 h | 14 h | 4.0k |
| Sep 2, 2018 | No storm report | 282 | 33% | 13 h | 12 h | 3.3k |
| Apr 29, 2022 | No storm report | 252 | 30% | 11 h | 14 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 173 | 20% | 11 h | 11 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 16, 2017 | No storm report | 278 | 33% | 4.5 h | 4.8 h | 1.3k |
| Sep 8, 2016 | No storm report | 282 | 33% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 1.1k |
| May 19, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 174 | 21% | 16 h | 21 h | 1.1k |
| Sep 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 248 | 29% | 4.0 h | 1.2 h | 967 |
| Jun 21, 2022 | No storm report | 159 | 19% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 914 |
| Dec 29, 2020 | No storm report | 280 | 33% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 840 |
| Jul 15, 2021 | No storm report | 253 | 30% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 696 |
| May 26, 2021 | No storm report | 284 | 33% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 639 |
| Jun 2, 2018 | No storm report | 178 | 21% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 623 |
| Sep 6, 2020 | No storm report | 171 | 20% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 598 |
| Jul 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 276 | 33% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 483 |
| Nov 1, 2018 | No storm report | 281 | 33% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 483 |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Winter storm | 274 | 32% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 462 |
| Dec 2, 2016 | No storm report | 281 | 33% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 448 |
| Apr 26, 2018 | No storm report | 286 | 34% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 429 |
| Sep 8, 2025 | Flooding | 104 | 12% | 4.0 h | 4.8 h | 364 |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 174 | 21% | 2.0 h | 3.2 h | 348 |
| Jul 19, 2022 | No storm report | 248 | 29% | 1.2 h | 1.5 h | 310 |
| Apr 23, 2022 | Windstorm | 91 | 11% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 296 |
| Apr 7, 2022 | No storm report | 91 | 11% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 273 |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 171 | 20% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 256 |
| Jul 15, 2022 | No storm report | 248 | 29% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 248 |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 129 | 15% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 237 |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 169 | 20% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 211 |
| Nov 11, 2017 | No storm report | 105 | 12% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 210 |
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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 49%
- No storm on record 45%
- Winter storm 3.6%
- Windstorm 1.5%
- Flooding 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lincoln
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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | KS | – | – | – | 17.3 | 74k |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.6 | 5.8k |
| City of Lincoln Center | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.2k |
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 848 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 →