Power outage history
New Madrid County Missouri
4.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
54th 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 New Madrid's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 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.
New Madrid, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2024 | Tornadoes | 4,023 | 44% | 2.5 d | 47 h | 112k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,492 | 27% | 35 h | 34 h | 65k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Tornadoes | 1,796 | 20% | 34 h | 9.5 h | 32k |
| May 16, 2025 | No storm report | 1,674 | 18% | 18 h | 13 h | 10k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Tornadoes | 2,183 | 24% | 15 h | 48 min | 7.5k |
| Mar 31, 2016 | No storm report | 2,360 | 26% | 3.0 h | 2.0 h | 6.8k |
| May 3, 2020 | Tornadoes | 895 | 10% | 10 h | 9.2 h | 5.0k |
| Aug 19, 2016 | No storm report | 632 | 7% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 4.7k |
| Aug 4, 2015 | No storm report | 522 | 6% | 12 h | 6.0 h | 4.2k |
| Mar 28, 2021 | No storm report | 548 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 3.6k |
| May 8, 2015 | No storm report | 482 | 5% | 8.5 h | 7.0 h | 3.5k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 1,054 | 12% | 6.5 h | 4.5 h | 3.4k |
| Mar 9, 2017 | Tornadoes | 1,530 | 17% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 3.1k |
| Aug 21, 2020 | No storm report | 957 | 10% | 6.0 h | 5.8 h | 3.0k |
| May 21, 2022 | No storm report | 438 | 5% | 8.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Oct 2, 2019 | No storm report | 419 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 8, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 981 | 11% | 4.5 h | 2.8 h | 2.6k |
| Jan 9, 2016 | Flooding | 1,876 | 20% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.6k |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 582 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 2.5k |
| Apr 25, 2025 | No storm report | 390 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 2.3k |
| Aug 11, 2022 | No storm report | 538 | 6% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 2.3k |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Windstorm | 601 | 7% | 11 h | 10 h | 2.3k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Windstorm | 521 | 6% | 4.2 h | 16 h | 2.2k |
| May 4, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 878 | 10% | 4.0 h | 30 min | 2.2k |
| Jun 12, 2025 | No storm report | 388 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 2.1k |
| Jan 19, 2017 | No storm report | 498 | 5% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 2.0k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Winter storm | 494 | 5% | 7.5 h | 2.0 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 25, 2020 | No storm report | 541 | 6% | 3.5 h | 7.0 h | 1.9k |
| Dec 17, 2018 | No storm report | 335 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 1.9k |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Heat | 427 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 1.9k |
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 New Madrid from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 38%
- No storm on record 30%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Flooding 3.3%
- Heat 1.8%
- Windstorm 1.7%
- Winter storm 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving New Madrid
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 |
| Pemiscot-Dunklin Elec Coop Inc | MO | – | – | – | 11.8 | 83k |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 12.3 | 33k |
| City of New Madrid | MO | – | – | – | – | 25k |
| SEMO Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 822 | 607 | 2.58 | 13.5 | 11k |
| City of Sikeston | Municipal | 3 | – | 0.04 | 9.8 | 6.9k |
| Entergy Arkansas LLC | Investor Owned | – | – | – | – | – |
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
- Stoddard 7.2 h
- Pemiscot 6.5 h
- Fulton, KY 5.6 h
- New Madrid (this county) 4.9 h
- Mississippi 4.4 h
- Lake, TN 3.7 h
- Scott 2.5 h
- Dunklin 1.2 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 9,169 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 →