Power outage history
Douglas County Missouri
6.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
33rd most of 110 in Missouri close to the national median
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 Douglas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Douglas, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,649 | 29% | 41 h | 21 h | 20k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,473 | 26% | 39 h | 32 h | 19k |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Winter storm | 895 | 16% | 2.8 d | 2.2 d | 19k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,492 | 26% | 42 h | 17 h | 13k |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Tornadoes | 591 | 10% | 24 h | 7.8 h | 9.2k |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Flooding | 696 | 12% | 19 h | 13 h | 5.9k |
| May 6, 2020 | No storm report | 305 | 5% | 25 h | 25 h | 5.7k |
| May 24, 2025 | Flooding | 753 | 13% | 14 h | 6.8 h | 5.7k |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,094 | 19% | 9.2 h | 7.8 h | 5.4k |
| May 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,474 | 26% | 13 h | 7.0 h | 4.6k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 986 | 17% | 15 h | 8.2 h | 4.3k |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Wildfire | 163 | 3% | 44 h | – | 4.2k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,140 | 20% | 8.2 h | 7.0 h | 3.9k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,069 | 19% | 7.5 h | 5.5 h | 3.7k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | No storm report | 1,205 | 21% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 3.5k |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 790 | 14% | 7.0 h | 4.2 h | 3.2k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 551 | 10% | 10 h | 7.5 h | 3.0k |
| Oct 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,342 | 23% | 4.8 h | 2.0 h | 2.9k |
| Aug 15, 2024 | No storm report | 277 | 5% | 14 h | – | 2.8k |
| May 7, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 704 | 12% | 5.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jul 9, 2022 | No storm report | 147 | 3% | 19 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jul 20, 2020 | No storm report | 110 | 2% | 20 h | – | 2.1k |
| Mar 5, 2025 | No storm report | 630 | 11% | 11 h | 48 min | 2.1k |
| Jun 8, 2024 | Flooding | 334 | 6% | 15 h | 9.0 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 15, 2020 | No storm report | 583 | 10% | 3.2 h | 9.2 h | 1.9k |
| May 21, 2019 | No storm report | 460 | 8% | 7.5 h | 6.5 h | 1.8k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | No storm report | 1,030 | 18% | 1.8 h | 7.5 h | 1.8k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 464 | 8% | 6.0 h | 4.2 h | 1.7k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 468 | 8% | 4.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.7k |
| Nov 30, 2021 | No storm report | 603 | 11% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 1.7k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Douglas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 36%
- Thunderstorms 25%
- Tornadoes 18%
- Winter storm 9.0%
- Flooding 8.0%
- Wildfire 1.8%
- Tropical storm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Douglas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE-MA-NO Electric Coop | MO | – | – | – | 9.1 | 85k |
| White River Valley El Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.5 | 39k |
| Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.1 | 23k |
| Webster Electric Coop | Cooperative | 103 | 103 | 1.20 | 10.3 | 19k |
| City of Ava | MO | – | – | – | 7.6 | 12k |
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.
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 5,733 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 →