Power outage history
Pulaski County Missouri
2.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
95th most of 110 in Missouri 70% 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 Pulaski's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pulaski, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,402 | 24% | 46 h | 33 h | 105k |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,087 | 4% | 14 h | – | 8.3k |
| May 7, 2024 | Tornadoes | 4,220 | 16% | 5.2 h | 4.5 h | 5.1k |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,263 | 5% | 5.2 h | – | 4.9k |
| Mar 29, 2025 | No storm report | 3,064 | 12% | 1.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.6k |
| Sep 28, 2025 | No storm report | 761 | 3% | 6.0 h | – | 4.6k |
| Nov 14, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 979 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Wildfire | 1,659 | 6% | 3.2 h | 1.5 h | 4.1k |
| Oct 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,276 | 5% | 3.0 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jul 6, 2025 | Flooding | 794 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 3.1k |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 876 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 3.0k |
| Apr 28, 2021 | No storm report | 750 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | No storm report | 754 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 2.1k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Flooding | 836 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 2.1k |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 632 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 2.0k |
| Sep 15, 2023 | No storm report | 1,590 | 6% | 1.2 h | 4.2 h | 2.0k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 376 | 1% | 6.5 h | – | 2.0k |
| Jan 28, 2024 | No storm report | 2,079 | 8% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 1.9k |
| Nov 3, 2024 | No storm report | 419 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 1.9k |
| Aug 3, 2022 | No storm report | 1,370 | 5% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.7k |
| Nov 20, 2023 | No storm report | 474 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 1.5k |
| May 10, 2023 | No storm report | 524 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Winter storm | 454 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 1.5k |
| Aug 8, 2021 | No storm report | 818 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| May 31, 2024 | No storm report | 804 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Nov 23, 2019 | No storm report | 427 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jun 9, 2022 | No storm report | 454 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 1.4k |
| Mar 3, 2024 | No storm report | 380 | 1% | 3.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Nov 21, 2020 | No storm report | 268 | 1% | 4.8 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jan 25, 2024 | No storm report | 727 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.3k |
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 Pulaski from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 54%
- No storm on record 37%
- Flooding 2.8%
- Winter storm 2.2%
- Tornadoes 2.1%
- Wildfire 1.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pulaski
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 |
| Laclede Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 155 | 123 | 2.07 | 12.4 | 35k |
| City of Waynesville | MO | 293 | – | 1.75 | – | 34k |
| Intercounty Electric Coop Assn | Cooperative | 707 | 251 | 3.10 | 13.0 | 30k |
| City of St Robert | MO | – | – | – | – | 25k |
| Gascosage Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.3 | 9.3k |
| City of Richland | MO | – | – | – | – | 8.7k |
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 26,191 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 →