Lincoln County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, Missouri had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.64 times the US outage time per person and 1.24 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 30 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 23, 2017, reached 9,444 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.5 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	68,357	40	1
2016	43,755	25	1
2017	210,707	30	2
2018	41,114	37	0
2019	95,858	60	1
2020	34,994	40	1
2021	219,968	37	4
2022	85,548	40	2
2023	132,520	36	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
Jul 23, 2017	42.5	9,444	166,851
Aug 12, 2021	44.0	9,207	111,480
Aug 12, 2023	21.8	9,501	83,670
Jul 10, 2021	37.2	3,472	37,198
Jun 19, 2021	23.2	2,140	23,796

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.