Camden County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Camden County, Missouri had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.22 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 31 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

33 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 22, 2022, reached 8,634 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 32.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	27,100	23	0
2016	31,504	26	0
2017	32,943	16	2
2018	41,758	18	2
2019	27,063	32	0
2020	55,910	43	2
2021	53,192	58	1
2022	157,480	54	2
2023	186,655	92	7

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
Dec 22, 2022	32.8	8,634	100,657
Aug 14, 2023	11.0	6,700	32,710
May 19, 2018	11.8	2,364	18,229
Jun 8, 2022	10.0	3,268	15,666
Mar 31, 2023	8.2	4,127	15,416

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.