Shawnee County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Shawnee County, Kansas had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.48 times the US outage time per person and 1.02 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 22 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 14, 2023, reached 17,644 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.2 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	186,518	70	3
2016	113,057	56	2
2017	79,785	55	2
2018	174,860	60	3
2019	71,974	52	0
2020	102,504	63	2
2021	585,377	70	4
2022	132,263	71	2
2023	448,961	71	3

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 14, 2023	71.2	17,644	323,270
Dec 16, 2021	58.2	21,005	263,723
Jul 19, 2018	14.5	17,749	91,672
Jan 20, 2021	29.0	3,112	90,053
Dec 15, 2021	5.8	23,275	67,634

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.