City Utilities of Springfield, MO
City Utilities of Springfield's outage record
21.5 hours without electricity across 2.3 separate outages - City Utilities of Springfield's record for Missouri puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 249% more outage time than the Missouri state average of 6.2 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 9.5 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City Utilities of Springfield
Serving 127,805 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at City Utilities of Springfield is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City Utilities of Springfield files with federal regulators every year - serving 127,805 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.