Power Outages in Cherokee County, KS
No live outage feed is available for Cherokee County, KS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 12.5 hours.
Cherokee County, KS is served by local tracked utilities.
Cherokee County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Cherokee County right now.
Cherokee County has been under 1 National Weather Service alert recently — most recently a Flood Watch on July 11, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Cherokee County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Cherokee County went about 12.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,837 customers.
Worst year here was 2025 (peak 1,399 customers out) · decade average 7.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | 1,023 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 66 | 2,473 | 3.2 |
| 2017 | 75 | 1,580 | 6.3 |
| 2018 | 106 | 1,540 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 602 | 1,373 | 9.5 |
| 2020 | 101 | 4,837 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 109 | 1,328 | 12.2 |
| 2022 | 166 | 3,221 | 8.5 |
| 2023 | 298 | 1,416 | 7.9 |
| 2024 | 183 | 1,642 | 11.2 |
| 2025 | 156 | 1,399 | 12.5 |
Relatively High ice storms exposure · 7.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Cherokee County: FAQ
- How often does Cherokee County, KS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Cherokee County, KS logged 156 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 12.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Cherokee County, KS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,837 customers without power, beginning October 14, 2020 and lasting about 2h 15m.
- Is there a power outage in Cherokee County, KS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Cherokee County, KS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Cherokee County.
66713, 66725, 66739, 66770, 66773, 66778, 66781, 66782, 67336
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/20021 and /api/v1/counties/20021/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kansas customers).