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

Power outage history

Pemiscot County Missouri

6.5hours

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

34th most of 110 in Missouri close to the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 11, 2021 77% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.5h / yr State average 5.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.1days Dec 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 25 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,582 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 Pemiscot's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pemiscot, hours without power per customer

PemiscotUS median countyMissouri average
0 10 20 30 2.1 ’15 5.5 ’16 9.3 ’17 2.7 ’18 3.3 ’19 4.7 ’20 25 ’21 1.7 ’22 3.4 ’23 4.8 ’24 6.2 ’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
Dec 10, 2021 Tornadoes 5,836 77% 2.1 d 45 h 184k
Apr 30, 2017 Thunderstorms 6,467 85% 47 h 13 h 48k
Feb 16, 2023 No storm report 5,830 77% 2.8 h 2.2 h 12k
May 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 545 7% 27 h 18 h 12k
Apr 26, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,788 37% 20 h 5.2 h 11k
May 20, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,365 18% 24 h 18 h 11k
Jun 9, 2020 Tropical Storm Cristobal 2,428 32% 3.5 h 3.0 h 7.3k
Feb 24, 2018 No storm report 1,366 18% 12 h 11 h 6.8k
Jul 22, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,889 25% 7.8 h 1.2 h 6.3k
Oct 28, 2025 No storm report 1,598 21% 4.2 h 11 h 6.2k
Mar 9, 2016 No storm report 1,719 23% 4.5 h 2.0 h 6.2k
May 8, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,333 18% 13 h 9.8 h 6.0k

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 +2h 90% by +10h

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 Pemiscot from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tornadoes 53%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Tropical storm 3.6%
  • Heat 2.6%
  • Winter storm 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pemiscot

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
Pemiscot-Dunklin Elec Coop Inc MO – – – 11.8 83k
Entergy Arkansas LLC Investor Owned – – – – –

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+

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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 7,582 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 →