Power outage history
Taney County Missouri
4.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
63rd most of 110 in Missouri 32% 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 Taney's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Taney, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 11,001 | 38% | 3.6 d | 2.1 d | 452k |
| Jul 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,360 | 18% | 21 h | 11 h | 36k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,301 | 8% | 16 h | 15 h | 26k |
| Oct 29, 2023 | No storm report | 3,134 | 11% | 8.2 h | 12 min | 25k |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,017 | 14% | 6.5 h | 5.2 h | 14k |
| May 10, 2023 | No storm report | 2,208 | 8% | 8.2 h | 3.5 h | 13k |
| May 29, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,031 | 14% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 11k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 3,836 | 13% | 3.5 h | 1.0 h | 8.9k |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,166 | 7% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 8.9k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,178 | 4% | 9.5 h | – | 8.6k |
| May 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,161 | 7% | 6.2 h | 4.5 h | 8.6k |
| Mar 9, 2019 | No storm report | 1,946 | 7% | 7.5 h | 5.5 h | 8.2k |
| Nov 6, 2019 | No storm report | 7,278 | 25% | 1.2 h | 6.2 h | 7.0k |
| Sep 20, 2025 | No storm report | 2,347 | 8% | 6.5 h | 48 min | 6.4k |
| Jun 29, 2021 | No storm report | 1,266 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 6.3k |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,571 | 9% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 6.1k |
| Feb 19, 2022 | No storm report | 2,961 | 10% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 6.0k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,107 | 7% | 5.2 h | 5.5 h | 5.7k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | No storm report | 1,398 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 5.6k |
| May 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,429 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 5.5k |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,498 | 5% | 6.8 h | 4.0 h | 5.5k |
| Jun 24, 2023 | No storm report | 1,621 | 6% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 5.4k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 799 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | No storm report | 3,892 | 13% | 1.5 h | 2.0 h | 4.9k |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,349 | 5% | 5.2 h | – | 4.7k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,711 | 9% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 4.6k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 1,704 | 6% | 4.2 h | 3.2 h | 4.5k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 4,204 | 14% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 4.0k |
| Feb 8, 2023 | No storm report | 1,620 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 4.0k |
| Sep 2, 2022 | No storm report | 604 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 3.9k |
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 Taney from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 65%
- No storm on record 30%
- Winter storm 3.0%
- Tornadoes 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Taney
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | Investor Owned | 167 | 110 | 1.10 | 14.8 | 144k |
| White River Valley El Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.5 | 39k |
| Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.1 | 23k |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 129 | 119 | 2.00 | 13.8 | 12k |
| 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
- Marion, AR 17 h
- Ozark 11 h
- Carroll, AR 7.2 h
- Boone, AR 6.9 h
- Douglas 6.6 h
- Christian 5.2 h
- Taney (this county) 4.5 h
- Stone 4.0 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 29,207 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 →