Power Outages in Ness County, KS
No live outage feed is available for Ness County, KS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.5 hours.
Ness County, KS is served by local tracked utilities.
Ness 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 Ness County right now.
Hardest-hit cities in Ness County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Ness County went about 5.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 545 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 138 customers out) · decade average 2.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | 270 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 51 | 272 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 36 | 138 | 9.0 |
| 2018 | 49 | 389 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 49 | 147 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 50 | 156 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | 545 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 17 | 541 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 16 | 490 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 65 | 143 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 60 | 483 | 5.5 |
Relatively Low ice storms exposure · 2.9 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 Ness County: FAQ
- How often does Ness County, KS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Ness County, KS logged 60 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Ness County, KS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 545 customers without power, beginning February 16, 2021 and lasting about 1h 30m.
- Is there a power outage in Ness County, KS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Ness County, KS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Ness County.
67515, 67516, 67518, 67521, 67560, 67572, 67584
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/20135 and /api/v1/counties/20135/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kansas customers).