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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Midwest Energy ↗ and Western Cooperative Electric Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Ellis County, KS
Last significant outage: Aug 25, 2026 — peaked at 236 customers, restored in ~30 min (weather alert).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Ellis County, KS
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
183 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Kansas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~9,661 customers out in December 2021, restored after about 2.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 in Ellis County include Hays, Victoria, Schoenchen, Big Creek, Buckeye, Catharine, Freedom and Herzog. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Ellis County, KS?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Ellis include Midwest Energy and Western Cooperative Electric Association — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
