Power outage history
Doniphan County Kansas
4.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
33rd most of 81 in Kansas 38% 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 Doniphan's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Doniphan, 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 | Windstorm | 413 | 11% | 2.4 d | 34 h | 14k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Winter storm | 646 | 17% | 17 h | 16 h | 10k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 464 | 12% | 26 h | 25 h | 8.2k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,003 | 26% | 14 h | 9.0 h | 7.4k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 827 | 22% | 13 h | 6.8 h | 4.0k |
| Aug 29, 2019 | No storm report | 777 | 20% | 11 h | 5.0 h | 3.7k |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,398 | 37% | 4.8 h | 48 min | 3.0k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | No storm report | 567 | 15% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 2.6k |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 552 | 14% | 4.8 h | 48 min | 2.3k |
| Sep 13, 2025 | No storm report | 616 | 16% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 22, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 648 | 17% | 6.8 h | 3.0 h | 2.3k |
| May 25, 2015 | Flooding | 646 | 17% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 1.9k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 366 | 10% | 11 h | 10 h | 1.7k |
| Jun 30, 2023 | No storm report | 203 | 5% | 26 h | 35 h | 1.6k |
| Aug 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 308 | 8% | 6.0 h | 4.0 h | 1.5k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | Flooding | 735 | 19% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.5k |
| Jul 20, 2018 | No storm report | 638 | 17% | 2.2 h | 2.8 h | 1.4k |
| Oct 30, 2024 | No storm report | 617 | 16% | 4.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.3k |
| Mar 5, 2018 | No storm report | 977 | 26% | 1.2 h | 7.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jan 2, 2016 | No storm report | 647 | 17% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.1k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 353 | 9% | 6.8 h | 5.8 h | 1.1k |
| Jun 21, 2015 | No storm report | 352 | 9% | 3.2 h | 3.5 h | 1.1k |
| Aug 21, 2019 | No storm report | 227 | 6% | 9.8 h | 9.2 h | 1.0k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Flooding | 430 | 11% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 982 |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Flooding | 71 | 2% | 16 h | – | 972 |
| Oct 19, 2015 | No storm report | 645 | 17% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 968 |
| Aug 6, 2023 | No storm report | 328 | 9% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 937 |
| Jul 6, 2025 | No storm report | 618 | 16% | 1.5 h | 1.8 h | 927 |
| May 27, 2019 | Flooding | 638 | 17% | 5.8 h | 1.2 h | 894 |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 267 | 7% | 7.5 h | 14 h | 834 |
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 Doniphan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 45%
- Winter storm 19%
- Windstorm 17%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Flooding 8.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Doniphan
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 |
| Doniphan Elec Coop Assn, Inc | KS | – | – | – | – | 16k |
| City of Wathena | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.2k |
| City of Troy | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.2k |
| City of Elwood | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.0k |
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
- Holt, MO 14 h
- Buchanan, MO 11 h
- Andrew, MO 6.0 h
- Doniphan (this county) 4.0 h
- Richardson, NE 3.7 h
- Brown 3.6 h
- Atchison 3.1 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 3,810 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 →