Power outage history
Rooks County Kansas
8.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
8th most of 81 in Kansas 1.3× 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 Rooks's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Rooks, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 2022 | Winter storm | 995 | 37% | 2.7 d | 35 h | 17k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 977 | 37% | 34 h | 35 h | 14k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Wildfire | 1,150 | 43% | 2.1 d | 6.8 h | 9.8k |
| Mar 20, 2025 | No storm report | 179 | 7% | 3.8 d | 3.8 d | 5.1k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,089 | 41% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 4.2k |
| Jun 25, 2020 | No storm report | 997 | 37% | 5.2 h | 4.8 h | 3.6k |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 245 | 9% | 14 h | 13 h | 3.4k |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 952 | 36% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.6k |
| May 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 973 | 36% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 2.3k |
| Jul 21, 2025 | No storm report | 1,011 | 38% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 2.2k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 54 | 2% | 29 h | – | 1.6k |
| May 9, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 949 | 35% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 1.4k |
| Jun 21, 2020 | No storm report | 1,007 | 38% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 1.4k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Winter storm | 228 | 9% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 1.3k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | No storm report | 996 | 37% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 1.2k |
| Dec 19, 2023 | No storm report | 940 | 35% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jun 25, 2020 | No storm report | 1,005 | 38% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 1.1k |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Windstorm | 958 | 36% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 1.0k |
| Sep 17, 2024 | No storm report | 174 | 7% | 5.0 h | 2.2 h | 733 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | No storm report | 286 | 11% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 566 |
| Jul 10, 2023 | No storm report | 171 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 513 |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 251 | 9% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 501 |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 233 | 9% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 470 |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 37 | 1% | 13 h | – | 462 |
| Dec 11, 2022 | No storm report | 169 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 458 |
| Sep 15, 2022 | No storm report | 165 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 451 |
| Aug 5, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 179 | 7% | 2.2 h | 3.0 h | 403 |
| Jun 19, 2025 | No storm report | 151 | 6% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 378 |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 155 | 6% | 2.5 h | 3.0 h | 347 |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 293 | 11% | 4.5 h | 3.8 h | 347 |
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 Rooks from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 38%
- No storm on record 30%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Wildfire 11%
- Windstorm 6.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Rooks
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | KS | – | – | – | 17.3 | 74k |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
| Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 383 | 157 | – | 14.8 | 13k |
| City of Stockton | KS | – | – | – | – | 6.3k |
| Western Coop Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.6 | 5.8k |
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 2,677 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 →