Power outage history
Wabaunsee County Kansas
6.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
16th most of 81 in Kansas close to 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 Wabaunsee's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Wabaunsee, 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 | 1,372 | 43% | 2.2 d | 23 h | 36k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,560 | 49% | 21 h | 9.8 h | 11k |
| Nov 29, 2015 | No storm report | 672 | 21% | 22 h | 5.2 h | 6.9k |
| Aug 8, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 510 | 16% | 29 h | 8.0 h | 5.6k |
| May 26, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 553 | 17% | 11 h | 15 h | 5.5k |
| Jul 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 518 | 16% | 10 h | 9.8 h | 4.4k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 734 | 23% | 5.0 h | 5.2 h | 3.6k |
| Jun 2, 2018 | No storm report | 394 | 12% | 14 h | 14 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 28, 2021 | No storm report | 658 | 21% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 3.3k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 720 | 23% | 6.8 h | 2.8 h | 3.2k |
| May 28, 2019 | No storm report | 1,887 | 59% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 3.2k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 667 | 21% | 4.2 h | 1.0 h | 2.8k |
| Jun 20, 2018 | No storm report | 447 | 14% | 11 h | 11 h | 2.8k |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 657 | 21% | 4.5 h | 6.0 h | 2.8k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | No storm report | 734 | 23% | 5.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.4k |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 417 | 13% | 6.5 h | 4.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | No storm report | 733 | 23% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.0k |
| Mar 24, 2021 | No storm report | 308 | 10% | 6.5 h | 48 min | 2.0k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 1,152 | 36% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 2.0k |
| Aug 30, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 406 | 13% | 14 h | 9.2 h | 1.9k |
| May 8, 2021 | No storm report | 493 | 15% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 29, 2015 | No storm report | 789 | 25% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 25, 2024 | No storm report | 1,160 | 36% | 2.2 h | 3.0 h | 1.8k |
| Sep 13, 2016 | No storm report | 1,197 | 37% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.7k |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 276 | 9% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 1.6k |
| Nov 18, 2024 | No storm report | 431 | 13% | 4.8 h | 2.5 h | 1.5k |
| Nov 29, 2015 | Ice storm | 444 | 14% | 7.8 h | 4.2 h | 1.5k |
| Oct 9, 2021 | No storm report | 384 | 12% | 4.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jun 16, 2019 | No storm report | 1,634 | 51% | 48 min | 48 min | 1.2k |
| May 14, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 448 | 14% | 7.0 h | 5.5 h | 1.2k |
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 Wabaunsee from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 50%
- No storm on record 46%
- Winter storm 2.9%
- Ice storm 0.8%
- Tornadoes 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Wabaunsee
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 |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | KS | 373 | 246 | 2.77 | 15.8 | 56k |
| FreeState Electric Coop | Cooperative | 335 | 327 | – | 17.8 | 18k |
| City of Alma | KS | – | – | – | – | 3.4k |
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 3,194 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 →