Johnson County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Johnson County, Missouri had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 69 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Junhardest months

January and June made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 12, 2019, reached 2,387 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.0 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	19,551	18	0
2016	27,102	17	0
2017	10,592	8	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	125,460	25	5
2020	61,056	35	0
2021	59,918	32	2
2022	14,088	19	0
2023	67,922	38	1

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	45.0	2,387	46,748
Jul 31, 2023	22.8	2,876	30,770
Jun 11, 2021	17.5	2,924	22,384
Nov 28, 2019	9.8	4,188	21,651
Aug 17, 2019	10.5	3,907	17,416

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.