Cass County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cass County, Missouri had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 49 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Marhardest months

January and March made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 12, 2019, reached 6,318 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 82.8 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	86,489	34	2
2016	43,314	33	1
2017	219,024	39	2
2018	52,972	27	1
2019	308,363	51	2
2020	123,694	54	2
2021	126,224	62	1
2022	81,022	58	0
2023	114,270	64	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
Jan 12, 2019	82.8	6,318	222,770
Mar 7, 2017	14.2	28,647	149,371
May 4, 2020	17.8	6,073	43,703
Jun 26, 2015	30.2	4,334	36,684
Jul 14, 2023	26.2	2,900	25,660

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.