Power outages in Salem, MO
Live outages for Salem and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Salem has 4,674 residents.
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SalemDent County
Outage history in Dent County, which includes Salem
2014–2025 recordDent County averaged 30 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Missouri counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 37. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 3.4 days, starting January 5, 2025.
The largest on record began January 25, 2023, with 3,834 customers out at once.
30significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.2 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.3.4 dayslongest on record (January 2025)
3,834most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| January 25, 2023 | 3,834 | 2.5 days | 41,264 |
| May 27, 2017 | 2,960 | 3.1 days | 101,761 |
| December 3, 2022 | 2,503 | 2 hours | 4,380 |
| July 1, 2023 | 2,085 | 22 hours | 19,223 |
| September 23, 2025 | 1,661 | 10 hours | 4,634 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.