City of Kirkwood, MO
Power reliability at City of Kirkwood
2 separate outages last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - that is City of Kirkwood's record for Missouri, running ahead of the national median. That is 52% less outage time than the Missouri state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Kirkwood looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 88 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 Kirkwood
Serving 10,325 customers here, Given how often City of Kirkwood goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Kirkwood files with federal regulators every year - serving 10,325 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Missouri as a whole, across every utility that filed: Missouri's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.