Power outage history
Scotland County Missouri
5.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
48th most of 110 in Missouri 15% 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 Scotland'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 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Scotland, 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 | 1,280 | 82% | 26 h | 19 h | 10k |
| Jan 18, 2020 | No storm report | 1,132 | 72% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 4.2k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 692 | 44% | 15 h | 1.2 h | 2.6k |
| Jun 23, 2022 | No storm report | 606 | 39% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| Dec 5, 2020 | No storm report | 1,156 | 74% | 2.8 h | 6.2 h | 1.8k |
| Apr 26, 2021 | No storm report | 727 | 47% | 6.8 h | 1.2 h | 1.6k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 561 | 36% | 3.0 h | 2.2 h | 1.4k |
| Mar 19, 2020 | No storm report | 1,132 | 72% | 1.0 h | 7.0 h | 1.1k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | No storm report | 765 | 49% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 1.1k |
| Nov 21, 2024 | No storm report | 502 | 32% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 984 |
| Apr 15, 2022 | No storm report | 602 | 39% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 936 |
| Oct 3, 2023 | No storm report | 443 | 28% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 775 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 520 | 33% | 4.5 h | 1.0 h | 748 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 701 | 45% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 720 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 179 | 11% | 6.5 h | 4.8 h | 668 |
| May 24, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 131 | 8% | 7.0 h | 13 h | 654 |
| Nov 15, 2021 | No storm report | 422 | 27% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 646 |
| Oct 16, 2025 | No storm report | 607 | 39% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 607 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | No storm report | 482 | 31% | 1.2 h | 3.0 h | 602 |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 130 | 8% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 484 |
| Aug 12, 2019 | No storm report | 538 | 34% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 460 |
| Dec 9, 2024 | No storm report | 93 | 6% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 442 |
| Jan 28, 2025 | No storm report | 96 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 432 |
| Aug 17, 2019 | No storm report | 112 | 7% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 420 |
| Jun 7, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 190 | 12% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 412 |
| Jun 16, 2024 | No storm report | 231 | 15% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 403 |
| Apr 13, 2021 | No storm report | 161 | 10% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 380 |
| Feb 5, 2020 | No storm report | 178 | 11% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 372 |
| Mar 6, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 181 | 12% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 362 |
| Oct 19, 2022 | No storm report | 471 | 30% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 353 |
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 Scotland from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 74%
- Winter storm 20%
- Thunderstorms 5.4%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Scotland
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 |
| Lewis County Rural E C A | MO | – | – | – | 13.8 | 83k |
| Tri-County Electric Coop Assn (MO) | MO | 63 | 51 | 1.61 | 13.4 | 73k |
| City of Memphis | MO | – | – | – | – | 8.0k |
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
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 1,563 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 →