Power outage history
Phillips County Kansas
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
4th most of 81 in Kansas 2.0× 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 Phillips's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Phillips, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 3,109 | 100% | 35 h | 20 h | 35k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | No storm report | 1,489 | 48% | 38 h | 25 h | 22k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,868 | 60% | 27 h | 9.8 h | 11k |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,040 | 33% | 44 h | 16 h | 8.5k |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,602 | 52% | 37 h | 6.5 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 10, 2021 | No storm report | 816 | 26% | 6.5 h | 48 min | 5.3k |
| Jul 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,287 | 41% | 12 h | 5.5 h | 3.8k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 1,631 | 52% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 2.3k |
| Mar 24, 2020 | No storm report | 1,185 | 38% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 2.0k |
| Apr 7, 2024 | Windstorm | 830 | 27% | 2.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.8k |
| May 25, 2023 | No storm report | 716 | 23% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 1.8k |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,303 | 42% | 7.5 h | 2.2 h | 1.7k |
| Oct 21, 2024 | No storm report | 847 | 27% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 1.7k |
| May 15, 2023 | No storm report | 1,824 | 59% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.4k |
| May 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 772 | 25% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 1.4k |
| May 9, 2024 | No storm report | 381 | 12% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 1.3k |
| Mar 20, 2025 | No storm report | 264 | 8% | 20 h | 2.5 h | 1.3k |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Windstorm | 679 | 22% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.2k |
| Jul 14, 2020 | No storm report | 1,240 | 40% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 1.2k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 136 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | No storm report | 1,235 | 40% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.1k |
| Oct 11, 2020 | Windstorm | 369 | 12% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.0k |
| Jul 10, 2021 | No storm report | 1,238 | 40% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 958 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 1,152 | 37% | 48 min | 48 min | 864 |
| Mar 13, 2021 | No storm report | 457 | 15% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 820 |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,162 | 37% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 774 |
| Jun 30, 2021 | No storm report | 1,545 | 50% | 30 min | 12 min | 771 |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 89 | 3% | 16 h | – | 752 |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 94 | 3% | 16 h | – | 672 |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 192 | 6% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 651 |
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 Phillips from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 43%
- Winter storm 26%
- Thunderstorms 19%
- Windstorm 11%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Phillips
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 |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 383 | 157 | – | 14.8 | 13k |
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 3,109 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 →