Christian County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Christian County, Missouri had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.37 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 62 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 31, 2023, reached 16,187 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Missouri counties

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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	4,160	1	0
2016	562	1	0
2017	17,413	3	1
2018	7,401	2	0
2019	41,281	20	0
2020	20,875	22	0
2021	26,476	20	0
2022	50,706	13	0
2023	608,394	41	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
Jul 31, 2023	102.2	16,187	546,388
Aug 26, 2022	52.5	769	38,705
May 28, 2017	9.2	2,008	16,228
Jul 31, 2023	2.0	9,649	14,043
Aug 26, 2019	7.2	2,493	12,277

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.