Platte County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Platte County, Missouri had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 49 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 8, 2022, reached 6,858 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.5 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	123,762	38	1
2016	71,265	44	2
2017	101,653	49	3
2018	115,277	53	3
2019	78,952	73	2
2020	71,907	49	1
2021	262,667	54	3
2022	129,237	29	2
2023	185,083	41	3

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
Jun 8, 2022	47.5	6,858	87,719
Dec 16, 2021	31.0	5,767	82,672
Jul 31, 2023	26.2	9,283	81,361
Jun 26, 2015	38.2	4,280	70,215
Aug 10, 2021	14.0	9,242	46,124

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.