Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Chase County Kansas

16hours

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

3rd most of 81 in Kansas 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 30, 2019 100% of customers out · 90% back in 28 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 36hours Aug 30, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 2.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 699 ORNL customer model · 8 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 Chase'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Chase, hours without power per customer

ChaseUS median countyKansas average
0 20 40 60 80 ’15 3.3 ’16 ’17 3.9 ’18 66 ’19 4.3 ’20 20 ’21 5.2 ’22 17 ’23 7.1 ’24 5.2 ’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
Aug 30, 2019 Thunderstorms 699 100% 36 h 28 h 16k
Dec 15, 2021 Thunderstorms 562 80% 16 h 12 h 7.6k
Apr 19, 2023 Tornadoes 699 100% 23 h 21 h 4.8k
May 18, 2019 No storm report 699 100% 10 h 6.5 h 4.3k
Dec 28, 2019 No storm report 699 100% 7.0 h 3.8 h 2.8k
Dec 1, 2019 No storm report 699 100% 3.2 h 12 h 2.3k
Nov 5, 2019 No storm report 338 48% 6.2 h 8.2 h 2.1k
Sep 16, 2023 No storm report 326 47% 5.2 h 5.2 h 1.7k
Oct 29, 2021 No storm report 639 91% 3.2 h 3.2 h 1.4k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 699 100% 2.0 h 2.0 h 1.4k
Dec 3, 2017 No storm report 699 100% 2.0 h 2.2 h 1.4k
Apr 29, 2019 Thunderstorms 150 21% 15 h 17 h 1.4k

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 +6h

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

  • No storm on record 55%
  • Thunderstorms 38%
  • Tornadoes 6.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Chase

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
Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc KS 102 102 1.49 14.3 102k
Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc KS 373 246 2.77 15.8 56k

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 699 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 →