Power outage history
Stoddard County Missouri
7.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
30th 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 Stoddard'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 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Stoddard, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2024 | Tornadoes | 9,753 | 57% | 3.4 d | 2.5 d | 393k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 8,453 | 49% | 46 h | 40 h | 315k |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 1,664 | 10% | 37 h | 32 h | 26k |
| May 9, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,024 | 18% | 14 h | 10 h | 17k |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,552 | 21% | 3.8 h | 2.8 h | 9.4k |
| Jun 16, 2025 | No storm report | 357 | 2% | 25 h | – | 8.8k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,490 | 9% | 9.0 h | 5.5 h | 7.9k |
| May 29, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,177 | 18% | 5.8 h | 1.8 h | 6.8k |
| May 30, 2016 | No storm report | 4,672 | 27% | 3.0 h | 2.5 h | 6.7k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Tornadoes | 980 | 6% | 13 h | 24 h | 6.2k |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 430 | 3% | 16 h | – | 5.9k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,601 | 15% | 9.5 h | 7.8 h | 5.1k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 235 | 1% | 19 h | – | 4.3k |
| May 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 755 | 4% | 11 h | – | 4.2k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 232 | 1% | 19 h | – | 4.1k |
| Nov 30, 2024 | No storm report | 562 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 3.7k |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,559 | 9% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 3.5k |
| Nov 17, 2024 | No storm report | 1,649 | 10% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 524 | 3% | 13 h | – | 3.3k |
| May 3, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,871 | 11% | 2.2 h | 30 min | 3.3k |
| Jul 7, 2024 | No storm report | 1,703 | 10% | 2.0 h | 6.8 h | 3.1k |
| Sep 17, 2022 | No storm report | 947 | 6% | 7.0 h | 8.8 h | 3.0k |
| Jul 16, 2020 | No storm report | 344 | 2% | 9.0 h | – | 2.9k |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Windstorm | 979 | 6% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 2.8k |
| Feb 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 613 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| Mar 22, 2024 | No storm report | 1,671 | 10% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.4k |
| Jul 9, 2022 | Heat | 1,451 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 2.4k |
| Jun 15, 2021 | No storm report | 356 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,446 | 20% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 2.3k |
| Mar 25, 2016 | No storm report | 2,281 | 13% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 2.2k |
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 Stoddard from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 47%
- No storm on record 45%
- Thunderstorms 5.8%
- Windstorm 0.8%
- Heat 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Stoddard
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 |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 12.3 | 33k |
| SEMO Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 822 | 607 | 2.58 | 13.5 | 11k |
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
- Wayne 17 h
- Bollinger 16 h
- Stoddard (this county) 7.2 h
- New Madrid 4.9 h
- Cape Girardeau 3.9 h
- Butler 2.6 h
- Scott 2.5 h
- Dunklin 1.2 h
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 17,220 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 →