City of Hannibal, MO
Power reliability at City of Hannibal
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Hannibal's Missouri customers went without power for only 18 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 95% less outage time than the Missouri state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Hannibal looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 54 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Hannibal
Most City of Hannibal customers keep power almost all year. Serving 8,825 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Hannibal filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Missouri territory, serving 8,825 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Missouri average instead of just this one utility? Missouri's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.