Butler County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 31 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 30, 2022, reached 5,574 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Kansas counties

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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	85,316	35	3
2016	35,446	30	0
2017	32,646	28	0
2018	33,147	26	1
2019	79,310	35	3
2020	9,639	17	0
2021	54,165	35	2
2022	106,859	19	1
2023	33,798	28	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
Apr 30, 2022	69.8	5,574	82,480
Jan 19, 2019	18.5	5,893	28,264
Nov 27, 2015	11.8	4,523	19,710
Jun 23, 2019	22.5	1,695	15,745
Jul 7, 2015	12.5	2,103	11,114

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.