Ozark County, Missouri Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Ozark County, Missouri had 12 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 3.40 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 5 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 751 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.0 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	14,720	10	1
2020	6,379	10	0
2021	31,466	12	1
2022	1,920	4	0
2023	142,114	32	10

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 25, 2023	45.0	751	25,380
Jun 12, 2021	37.5	1,820	23,594
Jul 18, 2023	23.8	1,188	21,620
Aug 10, 2023	18.8	950	17,071
Jan 25, 2023	18.5	931	13,746

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.