Osage County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Osage County, Missouri had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.69 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 64 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

15 hrslongest major outage

May, Aughardest months

May and August made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 19, 2017, reached 1,978 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 14.8 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	170	1	0
2016	10,755	6	0
2017	21,136	11	1
2018	2,787	8	0
2019	24,530	24	1
2020	6,772	14	0
2021	11,262	10	1
2022	9,125	15	0
2023	20,498	19	2

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
May 19, 2017	14.8	1,978	13,439
Oct 9, 2019	12.0	629	5,184
Aug 18, 2019	4.8	1,184	4,656
Jan 10, 2016	6.2	680	4,250
Jul 17, 2023	7.5	743	3,642

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.