Power outage history
Worth County Missouri
5.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
43rd most of 110 in Missouri close to 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 Worth'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 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Worth, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 890 | 60% | 16 h | 16 h | 13k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 1,272 | 86% | 22 h | 2.2 h | 6.5k |
| Feb 12, 2022 | No storm report | 647 | 44% | 9.5 h | 9.5 h | 5.5k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Winter storm | 996 | 67% | 5.8 h | 5.0 h | 4.5k |
| Mar 22, 2021 | No storm report | 877 | 59% | 5.8 h | 12 min | 3.7k |
| Jun 4, 2024 | No storm report | 868 | 59% | 6.2 h | 3.5 h | 3.2k |
| Dec 1, 2017 | No storm report | 877 | 59% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 3.1k |
| Dec 27, 2016 | No storm report | 895 | 60% | 3.2 h | 6.2 h | 2.5k |
| Jul 30, 2021 | No storm report | 792 | 53% | 2.5 h | 6.0 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 10, 2021 | No storm report | 649 | 44% | 2.5 h | 7.2 h | 1.6k |
| Mar 13, 2020 | No storm report | 874 | 59% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.5k |
| Aug 31, 2021 | No storm report | 644 | 43% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 1.4k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 886 | 60% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.3k |
| May 2, 2018 | No storm report | 884 | 60% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.3k |
| Oct 30, 2020 | No storm report | 875 | 59% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.3k |
| May 5, 2020 | No storm report | 879 | 59% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.1k |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 254 | 17% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 1.1k |
| Apr 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 869 | 59% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.0k |
| Dec 21, 2021 | No storm report | 798 | 54% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 998 |
| Dec 4, 2024 | No storm report | 864 | 58% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 864 |
| May 1, 2025 | No storm report | 860 | 58% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 860 |
| Jun 12, 2024 | No storm report | 92 | 6% | 9.2 h | 20 h | 851 |
| Aug 2, 2023 | No storm report | 620 | 42% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 775 |
| Dec 27, 2016 | No storm report | 727 | 49% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 727 |
| Dec 21, 2017 | No storm report | 315 | 21% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 707 |
| Sep 4, 2020 | No storm report | 874 | 59% | 48 min | 48 min | 656 |
| Sep 12, 2024 | No storm report | 867 | 58% | 48 min | 48 min | 650 |
| Dec 4, 2023 | No storm report | 867 | 58% | 48 min | 48 min | 650 |
| Mar 5, 2025 | No storm report | 266 | 18% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 598 |
| Feb 27, 2020 | No storm report | 475 | 32% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 592 |
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 Worth from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 73%
- Windstorm 12%
- Winter storm 9.5%
- Thunderstorms 4.5%
- Tropical storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Worth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Missouri West | Investor Owned | 184 | 104 | 1.49 | 12.1 | 309k |
| United Electric Coop, Inc | MO | – | – | – | 15.1 | 128k |
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
- Ringgold, IA 6.8 h
- Nodaway 6.0 h
- Worth (this county) 5.9 h
- Gentry 4.9 h
- Taylor, IA 4.1 h
- Harrison 1.8 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 1,483 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 →