Power outage history
Kay County Oklahoma
0.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
75th most of 75 in Oklahoma 89% 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 Kay's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Kay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 968 | 3% | 44 h | – | 24k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,846 | 5% | 17 h | – | 16k |
| Jul 28, 2020 | No storm report | 1,678 | 5% | 7.2 h | – | 9.1k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | No storm report | 1,750 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 7.0k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | No storm report | 709 | 2% | 8.8 h | – | 6.0k |
| Oct 12, 2024 | No storm report | 1,741 | 5% | 2.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Mar 10, 2021 | No storm report | 958 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 3.3k |
| Jul 7, 2019 | No storm report | 694 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 3.1k |
| Mar 3, 2018 | No storm report | 1,278 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 2.9k |
| Jun 17, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,734 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Nov 18, 2024 | No storm report | 704 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Winter storm | 863 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 2.3k |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Heat | 1,442 | 4% | 1.5 h | – | 2.1k |
| Apr 2, 2021 | No storm report | 698 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Sep 14, 2018 | No storm report | 693 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 1.7k |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Heat | 923 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 1.6k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 520 | 1% | 3.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Jul 9, 2023 | No storm report | 599 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 1.5k |
| Apr 28, 2018 | No storm report | 1,525 | 4% | 1.5 h | – | 1.4k |
| Dec 3, 2021 | No storm report | 700 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jul 7, 2025 | No storm report | 763 | 2% | 2.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Aug 30, 2022 | No storm report | 755 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jul 11, 2020 | No storm report | 742 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 552 | 1% | 1.8 h | – | 963 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Heat | 755 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 944 |
| Feb 5, 2019 | No storm report | 534 | 1% | 1.8 h | – | 934 |
| May 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 556 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 855 |
| Aug 25, 2018 | No storm report | 940 | 3% | 1.0 h | – | 820 |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 664 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 802 |
| Jul 23, 2022 | No storm report | 718 | 2% | 1.0 h | – | 622 |
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 Kay from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 49%
- Thunderstorms 22%
- Ice storm 22%
- Heat 4.3%
- Winter storm 2.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Kay
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Oklahoma territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co | Investor Owned | 237 | 145 | 1.71 | 12.5 | 716k |
| Public Service Co of Oklahoma | Investor Owned | 200 | 98 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 506k |
| City of Blackwell | OK | – | – | – | – | 27k |
| Indian Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 102 | 44 | 0.63 | 13.4 | 15k |
| City of Ponca City | Municipal | 144 | 116 | 1.42 | 12.5 | 14k |
| City of Tonkawa | OK | – | – | – | – | 13k |
| City of Newkirk | OK | – | – | – | – | 12k |
| Kay Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.8 | 4.4k |
| Town of Braman | OK | – | – | – | – | 1.1k |
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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Noble 8.2 h
- Grant 7.4 h
- Osage 6.2 h
- Garfield 4.5 h
- Sumner, KS 1.9 h
- Cowley, KS 1.3 h
- Kay (this county) 0.7 h
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 37,106 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 →