Barton County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Barton County, Kansas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.17 times the US outage time per person and 2.48 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 2 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 16, 2023, reached 10,807 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.8 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	13,450	6	1
2016	12,390	9	0
2017	109,221	11	2
2018	14,557	15	1
2019	15,821	13	0
2020	63,456	11	1
2021	139,040	13	1
2022	55,826	24	1
2023	218,194	19	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 16, 2023	71.8	10,807	187,211
Dec 15, 2021	79.0	5,364	127,741
Jan 16, 2017	88.5	2,613	98,020
Jun 21, 2020	7.8	10,942	28,024
Jun 22, 2020	32.5	2,779	21,522

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.