Benton County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Benton County, Missouri had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 34 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

19 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 24, 2018, reached 13,466 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 1.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	17,980	11	1
2016	3,195	8	0
2017	9,358	10	0
2018	90,028	74	1
2019	12,434	13	1
2020	10,201	17	0
2021	42,305	20	3
2022	29,933	29	1
2023	46,105	32	1

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
Sep 24, 2018	1.5	13,466	17,710
Jan 30, 2018	2.8	16,454	14,507
Jun 11, 2021	11.2	2,815	12,311
Jul 31, 2023	9.0	2,380	9,619
Jun 24, 2021	3.5	3,542	9,436

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.