Buchanan County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Buchanan County, Missouri had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.97 times the US outage time per person and 1.86 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 10 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

49 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 27, 2020, reached 22,861 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 33.8 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	35,928	30	2
2016	112,954	51	2
2017	73,953	27	1
2018	118,635	41	2
2019	66,229	43	1
2020	716,123	62	4
2021	404,432	52	5
2022	90,882	39	2
2023	156,068	51	3

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
Jun 27, 2020	33.8	22,861	260,010
Dec 29, 2020	29.0	18,375	184,249
Dec 16, 2021	48.8	21,100	135,588
Jun 4, 2020	19.0	18,018	134,584
Jul 10, 2021	21.8	10,703	83,694

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.