Power outage history
Marion County Kansas
2.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
58th most of 81 in Kansas 62% 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 Marion'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 4.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Marion, 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 | 1,738 | 25% | 36 h | 16 h | 16k |
| Nov 29, 2015 | Ice storm | 1,477 | 21% | 34 h | 23 h | 11k |
| Aug 6, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,525 | 22% | 19 h | 14 h | 11k |
| Sep 7, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 339 | 5% | 32 h | – | 8.3k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,236 | 18% | 14 h | 6.0 h | 8.3k |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,540 | 22% | 14 h | 3.5 h | 4.9k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | No storm report | 862 | 12% | 11 h | 10 h | 4.8k |
| Oct 21, 2017 | No storm report | 990 | 14% | 5.5 h | 3.5 h | 3.1k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 162 | 2% | 19 h | – | 2.5k |
| May 19, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 224 | 3% | 18 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jul 19, 2015 | No storm report | 498 | 7% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 2.4k |
| Jul 29, 2016 | No storm report | 667 | 9% | 3.5 h | 4.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jul 22, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 345 | 5% | 15 h | – | 2.3k |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 546 | 8% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 2.1k |
| Oct 14, 2017 | No storm report | 705 | 10% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 2.0k |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 648 | 9% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 1.9k |
| Aug 5, 2021 | No storm report | 310 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Oct 4, 2021 | No storm report | 323 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 1.8k |
| Nov 5, 2020 | No storm report | 320 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jan 14, 2022 | No storm report | 344 | 5% | 7.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Oct 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,621 | 23% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.6k |
| Jul 16, 2017 | No storm report | 223 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 1.6k |
| Aug 30, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 336 | 5% | 7.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | No storm report | 246 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Dec 12, 2015 | No storm report | 232 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jun 22, 2016 | No storm report | 394 | 6% | 3.8 h | 13 h | 1.3k |
| Jul 23, 2017 | No storm report | 997 | 14% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 1.2k |
| Jun 30, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 265 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jan 31, 2016 | No storm report | 288 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 1, 2017 | No storm report | 434 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 1.2k |
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 Marion from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 49%
- Thunderstorms 25%
- Windstorm 15%
- Winter storm 8.8%
- Flooding 1.2%
- Tornadoes 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Marion
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 |
| Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc | KS | 102 | 102 | 1.49 | 14.3 | 102k |
| DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc. | KS | 197 | 49 | 1.39 | 15.5 | 91k |
| Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc | KS | 373 | 246 | 2.77 | 15.8 | 56k |
| City of Hillsboro | KS | – | – | – | – | 10k |
| City of Marion | KS | – | – | – | – | 7.8k |
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 7,056 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 →