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

Power outage history

Camden County Missouri

6.4hours

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

35th most of 110 in Missouri close to the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 23, 2022 45% of customers out · 90% back in 21 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.4h / yr State average 5.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.2days Apr 19, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 19,007 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 Camden'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 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Camden, hours without power per customer

CamdenUS median countyMissouri average
0 5 10 15 20 2.3 ’15 2.4 ’16 2.4 ’17 2.9 ’18 2.3 ’19 4.5 ’20 4.1 ’21 10 ’22 14 ’23 6.0 ’24 7.5 ’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
Dec 22, 2022 Winter storm 8,634 45% 33 h 21 h 101k
Aug 13, 2023 Thunderstorms 6,700 35% 21 h 12 h 50k
Apr 19, 2023 No storm report 978 5% 2.2 d 4.0 h 27k
Jun 14, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,278 12% 22 h 19 h 21k
May 19, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,364 12% 12 h 9.0 h 18k
Jun 8, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,268 17% 10 h 7.2 h 16k
Mar 31, 2023 No storm report 4,127 22% 8.8 h 6.8 h 15k
Jul 11, 2020 No storm report 1,458 8% 11 h 8.2 h 15k
Apr 29, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,028 11% 17 h 3.2 h 15k
Jul 20, 2023 Flooding 10,136 53% 3.2 h 2.8 h 13k
Jul 20, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,298 12% 14 h 7.2 h 12k
Mar 19, 2025 Windstorm 2,897 15% 7.8 h 6.0 h 11k

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 +4h 90% by +10h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Camden from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Thunderstorms 25%
  • Winter storm 17%
  • Flooding 4.3%
  • Windstorm 1.7%
  • Wildfire 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Camden

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
Southwest Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 356 214 1.00 12.3 42k
Laclede Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 155 123 2.07 12.4 35k
Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 158 69 1.08 14.9 31k
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.

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 19,007 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 →