Power Outages in Rice County, KS
No live outage feed is available for Rice County, KS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.9 hours.
Rice County, KS is served by local tracked utilities.
Rice 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 Rice County right now.
Hardest-hit cities in Rice County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Rice County went about 3.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 6,094 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 4,324 customers out) · decade average 10.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 452 | 6,094 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 561 | 4,147 | 19.6 |
| 2017 | 483 | 4,324 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 172 | 405 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 416 | 1,381 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 122 | 2,869 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 122 | 2,288 | 12.2 |
| 2022 | 135 | 2,168 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 106 | 2,144 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 261 | 2,775 | 9.1 |
| 2025 | 254 | 703 | 3.9 |
Relatively Moderate ice storms exposure · 10.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Rice County: FAQ
- How often does Rice County, KS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Rice County, KS logged 254 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Rice County, KS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 6,094 customers without power, beginning May 29, 2015 and lasting about 1h 45m.
- Is there a power outage in Rice County, KS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Rice County, KS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Rice County.
67427, 67457, 67512, 67524, 67554, 67573, 67579
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/20159 and /api/v1/counties/20159/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kansas customers).