Harvey County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Harvey County, Kansas had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 34 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 25, 2021, reached 5,370 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.8 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	14,543	11	1
2016	30,130	11	1
2017	16,198	17	0
2018	10,546	10	0
2019	26,010	25	2
2020	19,140	12	0
2021	58,052	17	1
2022	24,090	12	0
2023	11,085	13	1

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
Jun 25, 2021	27.8	5,370	47,084
Jun 15, 2016	14.2	7,401	18,158
Mar 30, 2022	5.0	5,400	12,286
Dec 22, 2022	4.8	1,977	6,082
Feb 23, 2020	2.8	2,286	5,606

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.