Webster County, Missouri Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Webster County, Missouri had 9 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.47 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the Missouri rate. It ranks 46 of 108 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

2 of 8years with a major outage

117 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 19, 2023, reached 1,370 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 117.0 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
2016	1,634	3	0
2017	828	2	0
2018	3,391	1	0
2019	1,376	3	0
2020	2,245	5	0
2021	3,405	8	0
2022	27,379	17	1
2023	349,669	22	8

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 19, 2023	117.0	1,370	107,027
Mar 31, 2023	61.0	1,538	88,826
Feb 3, 2023	68.5	571	38,349
May 12, 2023	67.0	566	37,858
Jan 25, 2023	10.8	4,297	25,855

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.