Power outage history
Saline County Kansas
7.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
11th most of 81 in Kansas 1.2× 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 Saline'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 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Saline, 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 | Thunderstorms | 14,835 | 100% | 3.2 d | 36 h | 318k |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 14,835 | 100% | 2.4 d | 41 h | 212k |
| Sep 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 6,954 | 47% | 25 h | 5.2 h | 36k |
| Jun 23, 2025 | No storm report | 3,998 | 27% | 4.2 h | 2.8 h | 15k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,713 | 12% | 17 h | 17 h | 13k |
| May 27, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,973 | 20% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 12k |
| May 26, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,794 | 19% | 16 h | 15 h | 11k |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,356 | 9% | 16 h | 16 h | 8.0k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Winter storm | 2,745 | 19% | 6.0 h | 2.8 h | 8.0k |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 14,835 | 100% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 7.5k |
| May 19, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,162 | 15% | 8.2 h | 5.0 h | 7.3k |
| Nov 25, 2018 | Winter storm | 2,853 | 19% | 8.8 h | 48 min | 7.0k |
| Jun 3, 2017 | No storm report | 3,679 | 25% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 6.6k |
| May 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,591 | 11% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 6.6k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | No storm report | 3,246 | 22% | 2.2 h | 1.2 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Windstorm | 2,846 | 19% | 6.0 h | 48 min | 5.9k |
| Sep 29, 2021 | No storm report | 2,883 | 19% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 5.8k |
| Apr 12, 2017 | No storm report | 2,704 | 18% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 5.2k |
| Feb 20, 2021 | No storm report | 13,814 | 93% | 48 min | 30 min | 5.0k |
| Dec 8, 2017 | No storm report | 5,898 | 40% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 4.8k |
| Apr 7, 2022 | No storm report | 2,777 | 19% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 4.5k |
| Nov 7, 2016 | No storm report | 1,522 | 10% | 4.2 h | 16 h | 4.4k |
| Aug 29, 2019 | No storm report | 1,908 | 13% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 4.3k |
| May 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,992 | 20% | 4.2 h | 1.5 h | 4.2k |
| Sep 23, 2018 | No storm report | 2,500 | 17% | 1.8 h | 4.8 h | 4.1k |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Tornadoes | 1,191 | 8% | 8.2 h | 8.2 h | 4.1k |
| Apr 22, 2021 | No storm report | 6,983 | 47% | 30 min | 30 min | 3.5k |
| Dec 2, 2016 | No storm report | 1,777 | 12% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 3.4k |
| Mar 14, 2016 | No storm report | 568 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 3.1k |
| Aug 2, 2020 | No storm report | 1,822 | 12% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 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.
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 Saline from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 81%
- No storm on record 14%
- Winter storm 2.5%
- Windstorm 2.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Saline
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 |
| Rolling Hills Electric Coop | KS | – | – | – | 17.3 | 74k |
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.0 | 47k |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
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 14,835 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 →