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

Power outage history

Pratt County Kansas

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Feb 11, 2016 6% of customers out · 90% back in 48 min
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – 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 Jan 8, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 44% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 8,329 ORNL customer model · 0 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 Pratt's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Pratt, hours without power per customer

PrattUS median countyKansas average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
May 19, 2025 Tornadoes 385 5% 8.0 h – 3.1k
Jan 16, 2017 Ice storm 198 2% 6.8 h – 1.3k
Jan 8, 2024 No storm report 98 1% 11 h – 1.1k
Oct 13, 2021 Thunderstorms 165 2% 6.0 h – 990
Jul 16, 2025 No storm report 385 5% 2.2 h – 866
Oct 26, 2021 No storm report 390 5% 2.0 h – 724
Feb 26, 2020 No storm report 195 2% 3.5 h – 677
Jul 25, 2024 No storm report 390 5% 1.5 h – 585
Jul 16, 2024 No storm report 120 1% 4.8 h – 570
Jul 25, 2018 No storm report 172 2% 2.8 h – 473
Feb 11, 2016 No storm report 520 6% 48 min 48 min 390
May 18, 2017 Thunderstorms 196 2% 1.8 h – 343

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

  • No storm on record 56%
  • Tornadoes 30%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Windstorm 2.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pratt

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
City of Pratt KS – – – 13.6 29k
Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc KS – – – 15.9 25k
Southern Pioneer Electric Company Cooperative 146 112 1.82 16.4 13k
City of Iuka KS – – – – 1.3k

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 8,329 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 →