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

Power outage history

Mitchell County Kansas

0.6hours

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

92% below the national median

Worst outage on record Nov 28, 2023 5% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.6h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11hours Mar 19, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 34% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 39 min without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,576 ORNL customer model · 4 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 Mitchell'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 39 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Mitchell, hours without power per customer

MitchellUS median countyKansas average
0 2 4 6 8 ’19 ’20 ’21 0.6 ’22 0.4 ’23 0.6 ’24 0.7 ’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
Mar 19, 2025 Winter storm 141 3% 11 h – 1.5k
Jun 5, 2022 No storm report 273 5% 4.0 h – 1.1k
Nov 28, 2023 No storm report 295 5% 3.0 h 3.0 h 885
Aug 10, 2025 Thunderstorms 319 6% 2.5 h 2.5 h 737
Oct 21, 2024 No storm report 274 5% 2.2 h – 616
Jul 2, 2020 No storm report 268 5% 1.8 h – 422
Mar 18, 2020 No storm report 282 5% 1.5 h 1.5 h 422
Jun 17, 2025 No storm report 257 5% 1.0 h – 257
Jan 21, 2024 No storm report 156 3% 1.8 h – 256
May 2, 2025 No storm report 236 4% 1.8 h – 247
Sep 8, 2020 No storm report 164 3% 1.5 h – 246
Aug 25, 2023 Heat 232 4% 3.5 h – 244

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 Mitchell from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 66%
  • Winter storm 16%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Windstorm 4.4%
  • Heat 2.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Mitchell

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
Rolling Hills Electric Coop KS – – – 17.3 74k
City of Beloit KS – – – 12.7 16k
Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 383 157 – 14.8 13k
City of Cawker City KS – – – – 2.5k
City of Glen Elder KS – – – – 2.1k

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 5,576 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 →