Barry County, Missouri Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Barry County, Missouri had 4 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 66 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

1 of 6years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 15, 2023, reached 4,208 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	4,943	9	0
2019	12,716	18	0
2020	16,873	26	0
2021	28,076	19	0
2022	18,932	30	0
2023	99,520	34	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 15, 2023	20.5	4,208	47,115
Jul 31, 2023	14.2	1,801	11,648
Aug 10, 2023	8.2	1,916	9,448
Apr 29, 2021	1.2	6,943	8,059
Oct 22, 2023	5.5	1,311	7,210

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.