Reno County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.97 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 23 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 29, 2015, reached 6,214 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.2 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	191,968	42	2
2016	33,254	32	0
2017	37,986	15	1
2018	86,562	34	2
2019	36,549	27	0
2020	38,876	33	0
2021	131,921	28	1
2022	28,079	24	0
2023	38,196	30	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
Nov 29, 2015	73.2	6,214	152,253
Dec 15, 2021	55.8	9,129	106,722
Jun 18, 2018	20.2	9,208	26,493
Jun 16, 2017	11.8	4,430	23,017
Aug 25, 2018	10.8	3,256	21,239

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.