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

Power outage history

Washington County Missouri

10hours

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

15th most of 110 in Missouri 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 1, 2023 35% of customers out · 90% back in 10 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 5.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 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 2.8days Jan 5, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 59% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 33 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,163 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 Washington's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 33 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Washington, hours without power per customer

WashingtonUS median countyMissouri average
0 10 20 30 40 1.8 ’15 5.7 ’16 1.5 ’17 2.3 ’18 2.7 ’19 8.8 ’20 6.4 ’21 5.0 ’22 33 ’23 9.1 ’24 16 ’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
Jul 1, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,567 35% 2.3 d 10 h 118k
Aug 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,792 47% 42 h 19 h 69k
Jul 12, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,693 36% 41 h 19 h 51k
Jan 25, 2023 Winter storm 2,998 30% 33 h 21 h 34k
Jul 3, 2020 No storm report 548 5% 2.6 d 2.0 h 34k
Mar 14, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,712 17% 43 h 15 h 33k
Jul 13, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,525 35% 42 h 20 h 30k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 741 7% 2.8 d 2.4 d 27k
Jul 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,043 20% 26 h 23 h 18k
May 8, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,547 15% 29 h 21 h 15k
May 19, 2025 Tornadoes 1,392 14% 18 h 11 h 13k
Apr 2, 2025 Tornadoes 608 6% 30 h 35 h 12k

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 +8h 90% by +22h

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

  • Thunderstorms 44%
  • No storm on record 41%
  • Winter storm 8.5%
  • Tornadoes 3.8%
  • Flooding 1.4%
  • Tropical storm 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Washington

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
Crawford Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 362 216 2.04 13.2 20k

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+

All Missouri 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 10,163 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 →