Trego County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Trego County, Kansas had 1 major outage from 2015 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 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

11 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2021, reached 1,292 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.8 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
2015	186	1	0
2016	61	1	0
2017	5,127	3	0
2018	3,491	2	0
2019	591	1	0
2020	1,086	2	0
2021	16,552	5	1
2022	798	2	0
2023	3,142	3	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
Dec 15, 2021	10.8	1,292	7,324
Aug 10, 2017	6.8	1,731	4,426
Dec 17, 2021	5.0	771	3,821
Aug 7, 2021	1.2	2,324	2,905
May 29, 2018	5.8	562	2,732

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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