Power outage history
Monroe County Missouri
4.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
57th most of 110 in Missouri 27% below 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 Monroe's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Monroe, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,039 | 34% | 34 h | 31 h | 12k |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 694 | 23% | 2.8 d | 2.7 d | 11k |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,037 | 34% | 21 h | 4.2 h | 7.8k |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 541 | 18% | 11 h | 9.5 h | 3.3k |
| Nov 11, 2019 | No storm report | 429 | 14% | 11 h | 6.0 h | 3.0k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 714 | 23% | 10 h | 48 min | 2.6k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | No storm report | 626 | 20% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.4k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | No storm report | 648 | 21% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.3k |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Tornadoes | 342 | 11% | 12 h | 7.2 h | 2.2k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | No storm report | 359 | 12% | 10 h | 9.0 h | 1.6k |
| Mar 17, 2023 | No storm report | 613 | 20% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.5k |
| May 14, 2023 | No storm report | 614 | 20% | 2.5 h | 2.8 h | 1.4k |
| Aug 16, 2019 | No storm report | 389 | 13% | 4.2 h | 11 h | 1.3k |
| Aug 30, 2019 | No storm report | 598 | 19% | 3.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.2k |
| Oct 29, 2016 | No storm report | 536 | 17% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jan 21, 2022 | No storm report | 645 | 21% | 2.2 h | 4.0 h | 1.2k |
| May 16, 2022 | No storm report | 555 | 18% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 1.1k |
| Jan 4, 2021 | No storm report | 290 | 9% | 8.0 h | 4.2 h | 1.1k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | No storm report | 211 | 7% | 5.0 h | 8.8 h | 862 |
| May 4, 2020 | No storm report | 728 | 24% | 6.0 h | 30 min | 762 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 574 | 19% | 5.2 h | 1.0 h | 740 |
| Oct 24, 2022 | No storm report | 524 | 17% | 1.8 h | 3.2 h | 710 |
| Jan 26, 2024 | No storm report | 177 | 6% | 3.8 h | 11 h | 664 |
| Jan 24, 2020 | No storm report | 177 | 6% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 607 |
| Aug 12, 2021 | No storm report | 160 | 5% | 5.2 h | 6.2 h | 544 |
| Dec 12, 2021 | No storm report | 223 | 7% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 529 |
| Nov 25, 2022 | No storm report | 525 | 17% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 525 |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Tropical Storm Cristobal | 230 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 518 |
| May 7, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 84 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 508 |
| Apr 18, 2025 | No storm report | 425 | 14% | 1.5 h | 30 min | 477 |
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 Monroe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Winter storm 23%
- Thunderstorms 17%
- Tornadoes 2.5%
- Tropical storm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Monroe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co | Investor Owned | 594 | 119 | 1.18 | 13.3 | 1.1M |
| Ralls County Electric Coop | MO | – | – | – | 14.6 | 73k |
| Boone Electric Coop | Cooperative | 67 | 51 | 0.65 | 13.6 | 34k |
| City of Monroe City | MO | – | – | – | – | 15k |
| City of Paris | MO | – | – | – | – | 11k |
| Macon Electric Coop | Cooperative | 115 | 115 | – | 15.8 | 10k |
| Consolidated Electric Coop | Cooperative | 233 | 120 | 1.18 | 13.5 | 7.7k |
| Missouri Rural Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.2 | 5.1k |
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 3,068 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 →