City of Garden City, KS
Power reliability at City of Garden City
Power from City of Garden City went out 2.4 times last year across its Kansas territory, 2.6 hours in total - a little steadier than most of the country. That is 19% less outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Garden City looks like
At an average of 67 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Garden City customers need a generator
Serving 12,390 customers here, Outages at City of Garden City run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of Garden City filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kansas territory, serving 12,390 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Kansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kansas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.