Power outages in Kansas, by utility
Across 13 Kansas utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 2.9 hours in 2025 — that is 1.0× better than the national median. Kansas ranks #23 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 2.9 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 9.7 hrs
- Midwest Energy Inc - (KS)
- Best utility
- 0.7 hrs
- City of McPherson - (KS)
- Utilities reporting
- 13
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Kansas utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midwest Energy Inc - (KS)Cooperative | 9.7 hrs581 min | 2.7 | 3.3× worse |
| 2 | Victory Electric Coop Assn IncCooperative | 5.9 hrs356 min | — | 2.0× worse |
| 3 | FreeState Electric CoopCooperative | 5.6 hrs335 min | — | 1.9× worse |
| 4 | Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (KS)Cooperative | 4.4 hrs265 min | 1.5 | 1.5× worse |
| 5 | City of Kansas City - (KS)Municipal | 4.3 hrs257 min | 1.9 | 1.4× worse |
| 6 | Evergy Kansas South, IncInvestor Owned | 4.1 hrs244 min | 1.4 | 1.4× worse |
| 7 | Wheatland Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 2.9 hrs173 min | 1.4 | 1.0× better |
| 8 | Empire District Electric CoInvestor Owned | 2.4 hrs146 min | 1.4 | 1.2× better |
| 9 | Southern Pioneer Electric CompanyCooperative | 2.4 hrs146 min | 1.8 | 1.2× better |
| 10 | Evergy MetroInvestor Owned | 2.1 hrs129 min | 1.0 | 1.4× better |
| 11 | Evergy Kansas Central, IncInvestor Owned | 2.1 hrs126 min | 1.2 | 1.4× better |
| 12 | City of Coffeyville - (KS)Municipal | 0.8 hrs45 min | 0.2 | 3.9× better |
| 13 | City of McPherson - (KS)Municipal | 0.6 hrs39 min | 0.5 | 4.6× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.