Power outage history
Christian County Missouri
5.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
52nd most of 110 in Missouri 21% 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 Christian'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 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Christian, 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 | 16,187 | 44% | 4.4 d | 2.2 d | 560k |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,741 | 27% | 38 h | 36 h | 156k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 5,911 | 16% | 2.3 d | 2.3 d | 112k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,084 | 11% | 3.4 d | 9.5 h | 57k |
| Aug 26, 2022 | No storm report | 769 | 2% | 2.6 d | – | 46k |
| Nov 21, 2025 | No storm report | 2,772 | 8% | 2.9 d | 15 h | 38k |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,579 | 4% | 14 h | – | 22k |
| May 27, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,008 | 5% | 9.2 h | 14 h | 16k |
| May 21, 2025 | No storm report | 717 | 2% | 21 h | – | 14k |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,493 | 7% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 12k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | No storm report | 730 | 2% | 16 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 16, 2024 | No storm report | 2,024 | 6% | 6.0 h | 11 h | 11k |
| May 5, 2021 | No storm report | 6,722 | 18% | 1.8 h | 12 h | 11k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,475 | 4% | 13 h | – | 9.4k |
| May 8, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,165 | 9% | 6.5 h | 6.2 h | 8.9k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,196 | 9% | 7.5 h | 5.0 h | 8.2k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,977 | 8% | 2.5 h | 2.0 h | 7.1k |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,081 | 6% | 5.0 h | 9.0 h | 7.1k |
| Dec 1, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 787 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 7.1k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,863 | 5% | 8.0 h | 7.8 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,534 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 6.0k |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,531 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 4.9k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,515 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 4.8k |
| Nov 8, 2024 | No storm report | 1,113 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 4.4k |
| Sep 22, 2015 | No storm report | 1,280 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 4.2k |
| Nov 26, 2019 | No storm report | 1,570 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | No storm report | 1,199 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 3.6k |
| Apr 6, 2024 | No storm report | 1,199 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 3.5k |
| Aug 24, 2024 | No storm report | 2,483 | 7% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 3.5k |
| Sep 4, 2023 | No storm report | 501 | 1% | 6.8 h | – | 3.2k |
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 Christian from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 78%
- No storm on record 17%
- Winter storm 3.0%
- Tornadoes 0.8%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Christian
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 |
| City of Nixa | MO | 91 | 64 | 0.90 | 13.7 | 94k |
| White River Valley El Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.5 | 39k |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.6 | 32k |
| Webster Electric Coop | Cooperative | 103 | 103 | 1.20 | 10.3 | 19k |
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.
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 36,650 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 →