St. Francois County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Francois County, Missouri had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.96 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 42 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 3, 2023, reached 13,357 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	26,117	13	0
2016	101,545	28	2
2017	42,373	20	1
2018	18,934	13	0
2019	41,610	20	1
2020	51,016	23	2
2021	51,970	25	1
2022	68,016	29	1
2023	336,416	30	5

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 3, 2023	45.8	13,357	243,025
Jul 13, 2016	41.0	4,211	49,715
May 19, 2022	29.8	2,020	37,546
Jan 25, 2023	13.2	4,714	27,819
Oct 25, 2021	22.2	1,585	27,392

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.