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

Power outage history

Newton County Missouri

6.3hours

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

36th most of 110 in Missouri close to the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 29, 2025 26% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.3h / yr State average 5.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.9 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 3.6days Apr 29, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 29,474 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 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 Newton'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

2025 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.

Newton, hours without power per customer

NewtonUS median countyMissouri average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 0.9 ’16 4.0 ’17 2.9 ’18 5.6 ’19 3.6 ’20 9.0 ’21 3.4 ’22 6.3 ’23 5.4 ’24 14 ’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
Apr 29, 2025 Thunderstorms 7,559 26% 3.6 d 2.2 d 279k
Jul 4, 2021 No storm report 1,389 5% 46 h – 63k
Jul 30, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,113 7% 35 h 5.5 h 59k
Aug 16, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,569 9% 30 h 36 h 28k
Apr 4, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,759 13% 12 h 9.8 h 23k
Sep 20, 2021 Thunderstorms 6,251 21% 8.8 h 2.2 h 22k
Dec 15, 2023 No storm report 567 2% 2.0 d – 21k
Jul 11, 2023 No storm report 1,096 4% 19 h – 20k
Jul 22, 2017 No storm report 6,596 22% 3.0 h 13 h 19k
Jan 14, 2024 Winter storm 1,747 6% 12 h 7.2 h 16k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,076 10% 18 h 13 h 15k
Jun 16, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,805 10% 5.2 h 5.5 h 14k

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 +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Thunderstorms 42%
  • Winter storm 4.5%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Newton

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
Ozark Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 15.6 32k
New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 13.4 20k

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 29,474 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 →