Power outage history
Lawrence County Missouri
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
5th most of 110 in Missouri 2.5× 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 Lawrence's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lawrence, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,841 | 100% | 4.0 d | 3.2 d | 504k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,473 | 66% | 4.4 d | 2.1 d | 310k |
| Dec 1, 2018 | Tornadoes | 4,869 | 49% | 23 h | 9.8 h | 53k |
| Aug 19, 2018 | Tornadoes | 4,173 | 42% | 12 h | 2.8 h | 11k |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,310 | 13% | 14 h | 11 h | 9.5k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | No storm report | 2,762 | 28% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 8.8k |
| Jan 2, 2023 | No storm report | 2,811 | 29% | 8.2 h | 2.5 h | 8.5k |
| Nov 11, 2019 | No storm report | 1,740 | 18% | 4.8 h | 2.0 h | 8.3k |
| Sep 5, 2023 | No storm report | 1,891 | 19% | 8.5 h | 7.0 h | 7.7k |
| Jul 26, 2021 | No storm report | 2,495 | 25% | 6.0 h | 12 h | 6.8k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | No storm report | 1,147 | 12% | 16 h | 12 min | 6.7k |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 478 | 5% | 25 h | – | 6.6k |
| Nov 4, 2024 | No storm report | 630 | 6% | 11 h | 18 h | 6.2k |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Winter storm | 739 | 8% | 15 h | 10 h | 5.5k |
| May 8, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 728 | 7% | 9.0 h | 12 h | 5.0k |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,040 | 11% | 9.8 h | 7.5 h | 4.8k |
| Nov 1, 2021 | No storm report | 2,416 | 25% | 2.8 h | 1.2 h | 4.8k |
| Sep 8, 2021 | No storm report | 1,235 | 13% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 4.6k |
| Mar 23, 2025 | No storm report | 1,413 | 14% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 4.6k |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 1,156 | 12% | 11 h | 3.2 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | No storm report | 1,630 | 17% | 2.8 h | 14 h | 4.2k |
| Aug 16, 2022 | No storm report | 2,774 | 28% | 1.8 h | 6.5 h | 4.2k |
| Nov 24, 2020 | No storm report | 621 | 6% | 6.8 h | 8.8 h | 4.2k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,207 | 12% | 6.0 h | 15 h | 3.8k |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,795 | 18% | 6.2 h | 3.2 h | 3.5k |
| Aug 11, 2025 | No storm report | 947 | 10% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 3.3k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,981 | 20% | 5.8 h | 30 min | 3.1k |
| May 24, 2016 | No storm report | 1,170 | 12% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 3.1k |
| Oct 7, 2024 | No storm report | 487 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 3.0k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 913 | 9% | 4.2 h | 2.8 h | 3.0k |
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 Lawrence from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 77%
- No storm on record 15%
- Tornadoes 6.0%
- Winter storm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lawrence
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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.6 | 32k |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.4 | 20k |
| City of Mount Vernon | MO | – | – | – | 12.1 | 18k |
| City of Monett | Municipal | 84 | 46 | 0.87 | 12.9 | 4.2k |
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 9,841 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 →