Pike County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 70 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 12, 2023, reached 1,897 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	13,676	14	0
2016	6,404	10	0
2017	8,491	10	1
2018	3,899	1	1
2019	5,178	7	0
2020	7,445	16	0
2021	15,869	24	2
2022	25,090	25	2
2023	30,933	17	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
Aug 12, 2023	20.2	1,897	15,067
Jun 17, 2022	13.8	1,882	12,742
Jun 29, 2023	9.5	1,085	4,079
Aug 7, 2018	11.0	543	3,899
Aug 12, 2021	8.8	705	3,670

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.