Ray County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ray County, Missouri had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 40 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Octhardest months

June and October made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2021, reached 2,640 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.8 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	19,103	13	1
2016	8,747	18	0
2017	62,516	20	4
2018	20,596	13	0
2019	36,916	24	1
2020	18,437	18	0
2021	71,094	16	1
2022	13,056	13	0
2023	9,216	10	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
Jun 11, 2021	28.8	2,640	32,121
Nov 16, 2021	4.0	4,914	18,555
Jun 17, 2017	19.2	2,958	16,229
Oct 14, 2017	21.8	2,333	15,299
Mar 7, 2017	14.5	2,057	13,774

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.