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Who serves Cherokee County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Evergy and Liberty Utilities — Empire District, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative and Twin Valley Electric Cooperative also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Cherokee County, KS
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — Cherokee County, KS
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
111 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Kansas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~4,837 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 2.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Cherokee County include Baxter Springs, Columbus, Galena, Weir, Scammon, West Mineral, Roseland and Crawford. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
