Jackson County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, Missouri had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.81 times the US outage time per person and 1.55 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 19 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

119 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 12, 2019, reached 66,817 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 119.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,957,281	207	4
2016	429,790	256	3
2017	2,803,987	267	4
2018	30,353	24	0
2019	3,316,100	349	5
2020	574,870	295	2
2021	1,162,088	304	6
2022	842,826	352	2
2023	1,816,021	323	4

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	119.2	66,817	2,490,188
Jun 26, 2015	39.5	73,066	1,453,018
Jul 14, 2023	97.2	53,467	1,110,518
Jul 23, 2017	78.8	60,214	1,086,230
Jun 17, 2017	85.5	39,898	828,233

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.