Lawrence County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.30 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 26 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

106 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 31, 2023, reached 6,473 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 105.5 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	3,897	7	0
2016	10,011	10	0
2017	21,823	15	0
2018	71,122	10	2
2019	26,838	16	0
2020	43,809	22	1
2021	38,272	20	1
2022	17,422	22	0
2023	347,736	31	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
Jul 31, 2023	105.5	6,473	310,084
Dec 1, 2018	22.5	4,869	52,649
Jun 4, 2020	14.0	1,310	9,435
Jul 4, 2017	3.2	2,762	8,825
Aug 20, 2018	3.2	4,173	8,755

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.