Kearny County, Kansas Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

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Kearny County, Kansas had 1 major outage from 2020 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 4 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 4years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Sephardest months

July and September made up 92% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 30, 2023, reached 969 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2020	954	2	0
2021	1,281	3	0
2022	1,240	2	0
2023	16,778	5	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
Jul 30, 2023	21.8	969	15,620
Sep 20, 2022	2.2	430	968
Jul 19, 2020	2.5	378	900
May 5, 2021	2.0	422	844
Jul 21, 2023	2.2	324	605

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.
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