Power outage history
Lincoln County Missouri
4.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
55th most of 110 in Missouri 26% 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 Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lincoln, 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 23, 2017 | Heat | 9,444 | 39% | 43 h | 33 h | 167k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 9,207 | 38% | 43 h | 22 h | 111k |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 9,501 | 39% | 30 h | 16 h | 85k |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,472 | 14% | 37 h | 19 h | 37k |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,140 | 9% | 22 h | 18 h | 23k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,671 | 15% | 17 h | 14 h | 23k |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,043 | 17% | 7.8 h | 4.8 h | 22k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,020 | 12% | 15 h | 13 h | 20k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,876 | 12% | 14 h | 1.5 h | 15k |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Heat | 1,639 | 7% | 11 h | 11 h | 15k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,794 | 16% | 13 h | 7.8 h | 15k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,546 | 15% | 5.5 h | 4.2 h | 13k |
| May 19, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,884 | 12% | 8.8 h | 7.0 h | 13k |
| Jan 13, 2022 | No storm report | 965 | 4% | 13 h | – | 11k |
| Feb 23, 2019 | No storm report | 2,949 | 12% | 5.2 h | 3.2 h | 10k |
| May 22, 2019 | No storm report | 2,212 | 9% | 6.0 h | 3.0 h | 10k |
| Jun 1, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,930 | 12% | 7.5 h | 3.8 h | 8.2k |
| Jun 13, 2015 | Tornadoes | 2,519 | 10% | 4.2 h | 3.8 h | 7.7k |
| Mar 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,372 | 10% | 7.0 h | 2.0 h | 7.3k |
| Jul 26, 2022 | No storm report | 3,015 | 12% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 6.9k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,531 | 14% | 6.5 h | 4.0 h | 6.7k |
| Dec 26, 2015 | Flooding | 1,244 | 5% | 6.5 h | 48 min | 6.5k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 2,083 | 9% | 6.8 h | 8.0 h | 6.3k |
| Dec 3, 2022 | No storm report | 625 | 3% | 12 h | – | 6.3k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Flooding | 850 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 6.1k |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Flooding | 1,018 | 4% | 10 h | – | 5.7k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | No storm report | 1,207 | 5% | 4.5 h | – | 5.4k |
| Nov 29, 2019 | No storm report | 1,030 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jan 27, 2018 | No storm report | 2,277 | 9% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 5.0k |
| Jun 5, 2019 | No storm report | 2,274 | 9% | 4.8 h | 2.8 h | 4.9k |
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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 52%
- No storm on record 39%
- Heat 2.4%
- Windstorm 2.3%
- Flooding 2.2%
- Tropical storm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lincoln
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 |
| Cuivre River Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 136 | 136 | 1.21 | 11.4 | 74k |
| Consolidated Electric Coop | Cooperative | 233 | 120 | 1.18 | 13.5 | 7.7k |
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
- Warren 7.3 h
- Calhoun, IL 6.1 h
- Lincoln (this county) 4.9 h
- Montgomery 4.4 h
- Pike 3.5 h
- St. Charles 2.0 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 24,425 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 →