Franklin County, Kansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.42 times the Kansas rate. It ranks 12 of 59 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 31, 2023, reached 4,597 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.0 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	17,503	25	0
2016	13,392	20	0
2017	71,859	29	2
2018	57,790	25	1
2019	66,088	36	2
2020	30,982	18	1
2021	26,104	24	1
2022	23,014	28	0
2023	83,196	34	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 31, 2023	29.0	4,597	58,692
Jun 17, 2017	38.0	2,578	39,024
Jan 12, 2019	37.5	1,905	35,886
May 4, 2020	24.5	2,620	23,132
Nov 25, 2018	14.8	2,551	14,615

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.