Power outage history
Stafford County Kansas
8.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
9th 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 Stafford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Stafford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2017 | Ice storm | 1,293 | 78% | 5.4 d | 3.0 d | 80k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | No storm report | 1,404 | 84% | 24 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Jul 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 792 | 48% | 2.7 d | 36 h | 17k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 984 | 59% | 46 h | 27 h | 13k |
| Sep 10, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 577 | 35% | 8.2 h | 11 h | 3.8k |
| Oct 7, 2017 | No storm report | 495 | 30% | 5.8 h | 1.0 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 4, 2022 | No storm report | 743 | 45% | 3.5 h | 3.0 h | 2.2k |
| Feb 23, 2019 | No storm report | 502 | 30% | 11 h | 9.8 h | 2.2k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | No storm report | 136 | 8% | 27 h | 21 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 16, 2024 | No storm report | 418 | 25% | 5.0 h | 4.5 h | 2.0k |
| Feb 23, 2017 | No storm report | 772 | 46% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.9k |
| Mar 17, 2017 | No storm report | 504 | 30% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 19, 2018 | No storm report | 393 | 24% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 1.8k |
| Jun 21, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 416 | 25% | 16 h | 1.5 h | 1.7k |
| Oct 22, 2024 | No storm report | 221 | 13% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 1.7k |
| Mar 22, 2021 | No storm report | 788 | 47% | 2.0 h | 9.5 h | 1.6k |
| Jul 1, 2018 | No storm report | 788 | 47% | 2.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.6k |
| Jun 8, 2023 | No storm report | 387 | 23% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 1.5k |
| Jun 25, 2018 | No storm report | 313 | 19% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 1.4k |
| May 19, 2024 | No storm report | 871 | 52% | 9.0 h | 1.8 h | 1.4k |
| Apr 27, 2020 | No storm report | 491 | 29% | 3.5 h | 8.5 h | 1.4k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | No storm report | 251 | 15% | 6.8 h | 7.0 h | 1.3k |
| Jul 25, 2024 | No storm report | 832 | 50% | 1.5 h | 3.5 h | 1.2k |
| Oct 2, 2015 | No storm report | 773 | 46% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 1.0k |
| Nov 1, 2025 | No storm report | 332 | 20% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 996 |
| Oct 11, 2020 | No storm report | 549 | 33% | 1.8 h | 13 h | 961 |
| Nov 7, 2016 | No storm report | 274 | 16% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 959 |
| Apr 24, 2022 | No storm report | 313 | 19% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 956 |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 318 | 19% | 11 h | 12 min | 942 |
| Nov 16, 2015 | No storm report | 182 | 11% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 819 |
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 Stafford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 66%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Windstorm 13%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Stafford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc | KS | – | – | – | 16.0 | 47k |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Cooperative | 581 | 314 | 2.68 | 12.0 | 30k |
| Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc | KS | – | – | – | 15.9 | 25k |
| City of St. John | KS | – | – | – | – | 5.9k |
| City of Stafford | KS | – | – | – | – | 4.5k |
| City of Radium | KS | – | – | – | – | 187 |
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 1,665 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 →