Overland Park, Kansas Power Outage Today

How reliable is Evergy service in Overland Park?

Evergy is an investor-owned utility with 392,397 customers. In 2024 its customers averaged 1.65 interruptions and 318 minutes (about 5.3 hours) without power, so the average outage lasted about 3.2 hours.

About 68% of that time came on major event days, the severe-weather days that utilities report separately. On ordinary days the average falls to 102 minutes. A handful of severe-weather days, not everyday faults, set this utility’s year.

The typical outage was repaired in about 3.2 hours.

For comparison, Kansas as a whole averaged 286 minutes and the United States 614 minutes. That is close to the state average.

Among the 15 utilities in Kansas with at least 5,000 customers that report to the federal government, Evergy ranks 10th for the fewest outage minutes (1 is best). Nationally, 33% of the 926 utilities of that size reported more outage minutes in 2024.

These are the figures the utility itself reported to the US Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861, 2024) and describe the whole service territory, not one street. Your own address can be better or worse.

Storm season and outages in Overland Park

NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 493 storm reports for Johnson County from 2015 through 2026, most often thunderstorm wind (236), hail (219), flash flood (23), and tornado (9). The busiest full year was 2025 with 81 reports and the quietest was 2022 with 13, so the risk changes a lot from one year to the next.

Reports peak in May (141 since 2015), followed by June and March. October is outside those three months, so an outage now is less likely to be weather-related.

NOAA’s own narratives name power outages in 7 storm episodes in Johnson County since 2015, most often in May. That count is a floor, since the database records outages only when a spotter or agency mentions them.

What the most common storm types in Overland Park do to the grid:

• Thunderstorm wind. Straight-line wind pushes trees and limbs into distribution lines. These outages are usually local, a street or a neighborhood at a time, and crews clear them circuit by circuit.
• Hail. Hail rarely cuts power by itself, but it often arrives with the wind and lightning that do, and it breaks solar panels, windshields and exposed utility equipment.
• Flash flood. Floodwater reaches ground-level transformers, meters and low-lying substations. Utilities may shut power off ahead of the water on purpose, and wading near flooded equipment can electrocute.

Storm reports that name Overland Park

Within Johnson County, 33 NOAA storm reports since 2015 name Overland Park as their location or in their description: thunderstorm wind (21), hail (9), flash flood (2), and tornado (1). That is about 7% of the county’s reports, so most of the county’s weather history happened elsewhere. Reports naming Overland Park are most common in June. The busiest full year was 2025 with 16.

Who a power outage hits hardest in Overland Park

65.4% of occupied homes in Overland Park are heated with piped natural gas, and 32.6% with electricity (US 41.3% electric). A gas furnace still needs electricity for its blower and ignition, so a long winter outage leaves these homes cold too, though a gas supply stays on when the grid fails. Never heat a home with an oven, grill or camp stove indoors.

Residents aged 65 or older are 16.5% of the population in Overland Park, close to the US share of 17.2% and 9.1% report a disability (US 13.3%). These are the households most likely to depend on powered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines and refrigerated medicine. If someone in your home does, ask Evergy whether it keeps a priority or medical-needs list, and register before the next storm rather than during it.

About the housing: 23.1% of the housing in Overland Park was built before 1970 (US 35.5%).

Median household income in Overland Park is $104,834, above the Kansas figure of $74,275, and home generators and batteries are correspondingly more common. If a neighbor runs one, keep the exhaust away from every window and door, including yours.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 (housing, heating fuel, age and disability tables).

Backup power and electricity use in Overland Park

The average Evergy home used about 846 kWh a month in 2024 (US average 892 kWh), an average draw of 1.2 kW around the clock, and paid about 14.3 cents per kWh (14.1 in the state, 15.8 nationally), roughly $121 a month.

Keeping only the essentials on (a refrigerator, router, a few lights and phone chargers, about 400 watts) through an outage that lasts the average about 3.2 hours takes about 1.3 kWh. A portable power station or a power bank covers that; a generator is more than most households here need for a typical outage.

A generator must never run indoors, in a garage or near a window; generator and food-safety rules are in the power outage guide linked below.

If the power is out in Overland Park

About 195,494 people live in Overland Park, the 2nd largest of the 5 Kansas cities on this site. Report the outage to the utility so a ticket exists for your address, then check Evergy’s outage map for an estimate. If neighbors have power and you do not, report it again: the fault may be on the line to your house alone, which is a separate repair.

Overland Park power outage map

Evergy’s outage map has the official restoration estimate for your address; the count above comes from residents. Food and generator safety: power outage guide.

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