Power outage history
Rush County Kansas
6.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
18th most of 81 in Kansas close to 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 Rush's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Rush, 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 | No storm report | 974 | 70% | 4.5 d | 2.3 d | 25k |
| Jan 16, 2017 | Ice storm | 570 | 41% | 3.2 d | 2.7 d | 19k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Wildfire | 947 | 68% | 32 h | 28 h | 11k |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 523 | 37% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 3.2k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 612 | 44% | 13 h | 3.8 h | 2.6k |
| Jul 31, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 181 | 13% | 15 h | 12 h | 2.4k |
| Mar 26, 2022 | No storm report | 120 | 9% | 13 h | 13 h | 1.3k |
| Sep 5, 2024 | No storm report | 431 | 31% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 1.3k |
| Sep 7, 2023 | No storm report | 294 | 21% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 1.2k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 853 | 61% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.1k |
| May 16, 2017 | No storm report | 309 | 22% | 5.5 h | 30 min | 991 |
| Jan 16, 2016 | No storm report | 307 | 22% | 3.0 h | 2.5 h | 855 |
| Jul 6, 2016 | No storm report | 194 | 14% | 16 h | 1.5 h | 833 |
| Nov 27, 2015 | Winter storm | 304 | 22% | 2.8 h | 7.0 h | 788 |
| Dec 25, 2023 | No storm report | 174 | 12% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 783 |
| Oct 18, 2018 | No storm report | 311 | 22% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 730 |
| Jul 5, 2019 | Tornadoes | 306 | 22% | 2.8 h | 1.5 h | 726 |
| Jul 21, 2018 | No storm report | 319 | 23% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 718 |
| Mar 4, 2024 | No storm report | 92 | 7% | 7.2 h | 7.0 h | 654 |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 105 | 8% | 13 h | 8.8 h | 644 |
| May 12, 2025 | No storm report | 61 | 4% | 9.8 h | – | 587 |
| Apr 28, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 142 | 10% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 587 |
| Jul 10, 2023 | No storm report | 318 | 23% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 476 |
| Jun 18, 2020 | No storm report | 251 | 18% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 439 |
| Jan 19, 2023 | No storm report | 156 | 11% | 2.8 h | 3.0 h | 429 |
| Jan 15, 2023 | No storm report | 89 | 6% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 423 |
| May 15, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 125 | 9% | 6.0 h | 48 min | 420 |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 203 | 15% | 7.5 h | 48 min | 322 |
| Dec 6, 2016 | No storm report | 297 | 21% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 297 |
| May 17, 2017 | No storm report | 102 | 7% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 254 |
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 Rush from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 65%
- Wildfire 18%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Winter storm 5.5%
- Tornadoes 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Rush
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
| Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc | KS | – | – | – | 12.3 | 24k |
| City of La Crosse | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.9k |
| 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 1,399 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 →