McDonald County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 82 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2019, reached 1,831 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.2 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	1,577	3	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	23,021	10	2
2018	1,630	1	0
2019	56,813	11	1
2020	4,204	4	0
2021	20,573	4	1
2022	1,100	2	0
2023	18,015	15	0

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
Aug 27, 2019	43.2	1,831	41,193
May 9, 2021	10.0	791	7,910
Apr 5, 2017	13.0	673	7,103
Aug 12, 2021	2.5	2,707	6,768
Jun 23, 2019	5.0	1,926	6,176

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.