Power outage history
Franklin County Kansas
2.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
55th most of 81 in Kansas 60% 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 Franklin'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 4.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Franklin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,597 | 22% | 29 h | 27 h | 59k |
| Jun 17, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,578 | 12% | 38 h | 15 h | 39k |
| Jan 12, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,905 | 9% | 37 h | 33 h | 36k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,620 | 13% | 29 h | 23 h | 24k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,897 | 9% | 27 h | 22 h | 16k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | No storm report | 2,551 | 12% | 15 h | 8.2 h | 15k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,026 | 5% | 23 h | – | 13k |
| Jun 12, 2018 | No storm report | 3,104 | 15% | 8.5 h | 6.8 h | 12k |
| Jun 12, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,573 | 8% | 10 h | 6.5 h | 12k |
| Mar 6, 2017 | Tornadoes | 1,379 | 7% | 14 h | 13 h | 9.8k |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,442 | 7% | 9.0 h | 5.0 h | 6.2k |
| May 6, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,181 | 6% | 7.2 h | 10 h | 6.0k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | No storm report | 1,565 | 8% | 5.5 h | 1.2 h | 5.1k |
| Dec 10, 2019 | No storm report | 999 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jan 4, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,773 | 9% | 5.8 h | 7.0 h | 4.9k |
| Feb 8, 2021 | No storm report | 2,819 | 14% | 2.2 h | 1.2 h | 4.4k |
| Feb 1, 2022 | No storm report | 2,007 | 10% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 4.4k |
| May 24, 2022 | No storm report | 2,711 | 13% | 2.2 h | 4.0 h | 4.3k |
| Dec 20, 2015 | No storm report | 1,201 | 6% | 4.8 h | 2.2 h | 4.0k |
| May 18, 2022 | No storm report | 1,233 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.5 h | 3.7k |
| May 15, 2017 | No storm report | 486 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 3.4k |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 654 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 3.2k |
| Feb 6, 2023 | No storm report | 1,985 | 10% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 3.0k |
| May 7, 2025 | No storm report | 2,314 | 11% | 2.2 h | 2.8 h | 2.9k |
| May 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 652 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 30, 2018 | No storm report | 488 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| Jul 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 728 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 2.5k |
| May 28, 2019 | No storm report | 250 | 1% | 11 h | – | 2.5k |
| Aug 1, 2023 | No storm report | 324 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jul 22, 2017 | No storm report | 913 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 2.3k |
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 Franklin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 42%
- No storm on record 40%
- Winter storm 17%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Franklin
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 |
| Evergy Metro | Investor Owned | 129 | 64 | 1.02 | 13.2 | 247k |
| City of Ottawa | KS | 257 | – | 2.95 | 10.0 | 53k |
| City of Pomona | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.1k |
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.
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 20,702 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 →