Power Out Map
– 0% of Labette out 0 customers out in Kansas

Power outage history

Labette County Kansas

1.7hours

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

68th most of 81 in Kansas 74% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 27, 2016 16% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.7h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.1 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 26hours Apr 26, 2016, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 32% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.9 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,654 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 Labette'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Labette, hours without power per customer

LabetteUS median countyKansas average
0 2 4 6 8 0.8 ’15 2.6 ’16 0.8 ’17 2.2 ’18 1.4 ’19 1.3 ’20 2.9 ’21 1.6 ’22 0.9 ’23 2.2 ’24 0.9 ’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
Apr 26, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,893 16% 26 h 22 h 13k
May 16, 2024 No storm report 4,146 36% 6.5 h 13 h 10k
Jul 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,083 26% 13 h 2.5 h 6.7k
Jan 1, 2021 No storm report 3,830 33% 3.5 h 2.2 h 5.3k
Aug 15, 2018 Flooding 1,407 12% 4.2 h 48 min 5.2k
May 6, 2024 Thunderstorms 829 7% 6.0 h 7.5 h 4.2k
May 3, 2018 Thunderstorms 923 8% 12 h 5.5 h 4.0k
Sep 1, 2022 No storm report 946 8% 4.2 h 5.5 h 3.8k
Jul 16, 2021 Flooding 2,125 18% 4.2 h 48 min 3.5k
Jul 14, 2016 No storm report 2,195 19% 2.0 h 1.8 h 3.4k
Feb 4, 2022 No storm report 3,168 27% 2.0 h 2.2 h 3.2k
Nov 16, 2018 No storm report 1,637 14% 2.0 h 1.2 h 3.1k

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 +2h 90% by +4h

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

  • No storm on record 68%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • Flooding 8.4%
  • Winter storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Labette

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 Kansas South, Inc Investor Owned 244 84 1.39 14.5 306k
Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc KS 417 168 2.54 14.4 113k
Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc KS 384 93 1.59 17.0 25k
Empire District Electric Co Investor Owned 146 91 1.44 13.3 8.5k
City of Altamont KS – – – – 6.2k
City of Chetopa KS – – – – 5.2k
City of Coffeyville Municipal 45 13 0.23 12.4 4.7k

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 11,654 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 →