When will the power be back in Rice County, KS?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Rice County, KS right now.

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Elsewhere in Kansas: 99 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 2:31 AM CDT.

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Who serves Rice County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Midwest Energy ↗ and Evergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. DS&O Electric Cooperative, Ark Valley Electric Cooperative Association and City of Sterling 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 — Rice 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 — Rice County, KS

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 132 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: ~6,094 customers out in May 2015, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2017.

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 Rice County include Lyons, Sterling, Little River, Chase, Geneseo, Bushton, Alden and Raymond. 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 Rice County, KS?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rice include Midwest Energy, Evergy, DS&O Electric Cooperative and others — 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.

Nearby counties & areas

Ellsworth County · Reno County · McPherson County · Barton County · Stafford County · Saline County · Harvey County · Lincoln County

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