Jefferson County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.62 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 15 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 25, 2018, reached 2,816 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.5 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	14,590	14	0
2016	8,566	14	0
2017	16,423	17	0
2018	30,798	9	1
2019	45,327	30	3
2020	24,894	14	0
2021	57,331	17	3
2022	8,394	11	0
2023	43,934	14	2

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
Nov 25, 2018	17.5	2,816	22,080
Dec 16, 2021	11.8	2,086	17,216
Jul 14, 2023	28.8	2,229	15,853
Jul 1, 2023	19.8	1,450	13,296
Jun 21, 2019	9.8	3,101	11,609

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.