Ellis County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ellis County, Kansas had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.82 times the US outage time per person and 1.74 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 8 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2021, reached 9,661 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	8,166	7	0
2016	132,900	33	3
2017	8,950	18	0
2018	83,226	24	1
2019	54,846	12	1
2020	10,282	8	0
2021	147,930	21	1
2022	64,636	31	3
2023	15,367	16	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 15, 2021	77.8	9,661	120,113
Nov 25, 2018	17.0	8,645	63,617
Jul 13, 2016	16.0	5,959	56,179
Aug 14, 2019	18.2	6,672	41,906
May 9, 2016	46.5	525	17,812

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.