New Madrid County, Missouri Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

New Madrid County, Missouri had 3 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 1.28 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.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

May, Marhardest months

May and March made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2020, reached 2,362 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Missouri counties

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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	10,366	12	0
2016	19,247	12	0
2017	46,473	12	2
2018	12,152	16	0
2019	21,018	24	0
2020	81,762	19	1
2021	9,941	7	0
2022	14,524	17	0
2023	7,927	11	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
May 5, 2020	27.8	2,362	49,975
Mar 1, 2017	21.2	1,796	29,278
May 4, 2020	6.8	2,492	14,599
Mar 31, 2016	3.0	2,360	6,756
Aug 20, 2016	7.5	632	4,740

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.