Power Out Map
– 0% of Bates out 0 customers out in Missouri

Power outage history

Bates County Missouri

7.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

27th most of 110 in Missouri 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 12, 2019 29% of customers out · 90% back in 46 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.7h / yr State average 5.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.4days Jan 12, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 31% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,227 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bates's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bates, hours without power per customer

BatesUS median countyMissouri average
0 5 10 15 3.8 ’15 2.1 ’16 3.9 ’17 3.1 ’18 13 ’19 6.5 ’20 5.5 ’21 3.5 ’22 8.8 ’23 10 ’24 11 ’25 US 6.6 MO 5.2

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Jan 12, 2019 Winter storm 1,233 29% 2.4 d 46 h 19k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 1,690 40% 30 h 11 h 11k
May 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,782 66% 9.8 h 3.5 h 10k
Sep 3, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,429 34% 12 h 8.0 h 9.9k
Dec 15, 2021 No storm report 704 17% 23 h 2.5 h 7.1k
Jul 12, 2023 No storm report 1,109 26% 15 h 4.5 h 6.1k
Apr 27, 2024 Thunderstorms 809 19% 12 h 8.2 h 5.7k
May 20, 2019 No storm report 858 20% 8.2 h 7.0 h 5.6k
May 19, 2024 No storm report 1,010 24% 8.0 h 3.5 h 5.3k
May 17, 2015 Tornadoes 738 17% 7.8 h 5.5 h 5.3k
Aug 16, 2019 No storm report 1,350 32% 17 h 5.0 h 5.1k
May 8, 2024 No storm report 1,031 24% 5.5 h 2.0 h 4.7k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bates from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 69%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Winter storm 14%
  • Tornadoes 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bates

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Missouri territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Evergy Missouri West Investor Owned 184 104 1.49 12.1 309k
Evergy Metro Investor Owned 178 99 1.50 13.6 276k
City of Butler MO – – – – 18k
Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn Cooperative 379 3 0.69 14.8 17k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Missouri

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Missouri counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 4,227 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →