Sedgwick County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sedgwick County, Kansas had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.22 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 40 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

39 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 22, 2019, reached 6,655 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.0 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	203,631	167	0
2016	442,241	230	2
2017	177,566	147	1
2018	235,919	163	0
2019	425,402	186	2
2020	169,302	152	0
2021	368,845	165	1
2022	388,784	183	3
2023	236,672	173	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 22, 2019	39.0	6,655	66,092
Dec 22, 2022	12.5	8,993	59,214
Jan 19, 2019	20.0	6,078	55,250
Apr 30, 2022	15.8	8,804	40,127
Aug 8, 2016	15.5	7,050	30,870

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.