City of Kansas City, KS
City of Kansas City's outage record
City of Kansas City customers in Kansas had 1.9 interruptions last year, 4.3 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.5×. That is 31% more outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Kansas City looks like
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do City of Kansas City customers need a generator
Serving 65,369 customers here, City of Kansas City customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
City of Kansas City filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kansas territory, serving 65,369 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Kansas is covered too: see Kansas's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.