Power outage history
Geary County Kansas
1.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
66th most of 81 in Kansas 71% 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 Geary'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 4.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Geary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 2015 | Ice storm | 3,188 | 21% | 46 h | 32 h | 56k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 5,611 | 37% | 41 h | 15 h | 48k |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,893 | 39% | 18 h | 9.8 h | 34k |
| Jun 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,164 | 21% | 9.8 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,977 | 19% | 7.2 h | 4.8 h | 8.4k |
| Jun 11, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,261 | 15% | 7.0 h | 5.8 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,218 | 8% | 4.0 h | 4.5 h | 4.9k |
| May 8, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,515 | 10% | 3.2 h | 1.0 h | 4.7k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Windstorm | 3,681 | 24% | 4.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.4k |
| Dec 1, 2015 | No storm report | 2,944 | 19% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 3.7k |
| Mar 28, 2025 | No storm report | 922 | 6% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 3.2k |
| May 30, 2022 | No storm report | 965 | 6% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 3.0k |
| Apr 5, 2024 | No storm report | 4,059 | 27% | 48 min | 1.2 h | 3.0k |
| Aug 20, 2016 | No storm report | 985 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 3.0k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | No storm report | 735 | 5% | 4.8 h | – | 2.9k |
| Oct 26, 2016 | No storm report | 1,342 | 9% | 3.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.8k |
| Sep 30, 2015 | No storm report | 995 | 7% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 2.7k |
| Apr 7, 2024 | No storm report | 1,416 | 9% | 1.8 h | 9.2 h | 2.5k |
| Feb 3, 2017 | No storm report | 1,324 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 2.3k |
| Aug 16, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,357 | 9% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 2.3k |
| Apr 22, 2021 | No storm report | 4,152 | 27% | 30 min | 30 min | 2.1k |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,509 | 10% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 1.9k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | No storm report | 338 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 1.9k |
| Oct 6, 2017 | No storm report | 957 | 6% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 1.7k |
| Jul 12, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 684 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 1.6k |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 251 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 1.6k |
| Apr 21, 2018 | No storm report | 1,291 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.5k |
| Jun 7, 2022 | No storm report | 669 | 4% | 2.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jan 11, 2018 | No storm report | 951 | 6% | 1.5 h | 2.0 h | 1.4k |
| Jun 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,255 | 8% | 1.8 h | 1.2 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 Geary from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 71%
- No storm on record 29%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Geary
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 |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | KS | 197 | 49 | 1.39 | 15.5 | 91k |
| Bluestem Electric Coop Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.6 | 70k |
| 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.
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 15,302 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 →