Power outage history
Atchison County Kansas
3.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
49th most of 81 in Kansas 53% 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 Atchison'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 5.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Atchison, 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 | 1,946 | 22% | 35 h | 16 h | 21k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,743 | 20% | 22 h | 15 h | 20k |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,398 | 16% | 15 h | 11 h | 8.7k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,011 | 12% | 16 h | 15 h | 6.3k |
| Jun 16, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,155 | 13% | 21 h | 15 h | 5.9k |
| Jun 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,621 | 19% | 10 h | 7.2 h | 5.2k |
| Jun 4, 2020 | No storm report | 1,680 | 19% | 9.5 h | 4.5 h | 5.0k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | No storm report | 2,082 | 24% | 7.2 h | 3.5 h | 4.6k |
| Dec 29, 2020 | Winter storm | 881 | 10% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 4.2k |
| May 11, 2018 | No storm report | 2,053 | 24% | 1.8 h | 9.5 h | 3.4k |
| Oct 13, 2016 | No storm report | 586 | 7% | 5.5 h | 5.8 h | 3.2k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 679 | 8% | 11 h | 10 h | 3.1k |
| Apr 21, 2020 | No storm report | 491 | 6% | 5.8 h | 15 h | 2.8k |
| Oct 6, 2018 | No storm report | 1,440 | 17% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.5k |
| Apr 22, 2021 | No storm report | 4,858 | 56% | 30 min | 30 min | 2.4k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | No storm report | 691 | 8% | 10 h | 9.0 h | 2.4k |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 305 | 4% | 11 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jun 15, 2019 | Flooding | 593 | 7% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.0k |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Flooding | 1,194 | 14% | 4.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.0k |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,111 | 13% | 7.8 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 8, 2025 | No storm report | 1,374 | 16% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.9k |
| Jan 5, 2024 | No storm report | 639 | 7% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 2, 2018 | No storm report | 786 | 9% | 7.8 h | 4.0 h | 1.7k |
| Jul 27, 2020 | No storm report | 1,085 | 13% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 1.6k |
| Jul 24, 2015 | No storm report | 743 | 9% | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 1.5k |
| May 27, 2018 | No storm report | 612 | 7% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.5k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | No storm report | 596 | 7% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 1.5k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,141 | 13% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 1.5k |
| Nov 11, 2015 | Windstorm | 985 | 11% | 3.8 h | 1.2 h | 1.4k |
| Jul 4, 2023 | No storm report | 241 | 3% | 8.8 h | – | 1.3k |
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 Atchison from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 59%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- Winter storm 16%
- Flooding 3.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Atchison
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 |
| Brown-Atchison E C A Inc | KS | – | – | – | 14.1 | 31k |
| FreeState Electric Coop | Cooperative | 335 | 327 | – | 17.8 | 18k |
| Doniphan Elec Coop Assn, Inc | KS | – | – | – | – | 16k |
| City of Horton | KS | – | – | – | – | 6.7k |
| City of Muscotah | KS | – | – | – | – | 723 |
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
- Jackson 21 h
- Buchanan, MO 11 h
- Platte, MO 4.4 h
- Doniphan 4.0 h
- Jefferson 4.0 h
- Brown 3.6 h
- Atchison (this county) 3.1 h
- Leavenworth 2.5 h
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 8,677 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 →