County annual report · FIPS 29015
2015 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 715th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 2, 2015 02:30 | July 7, 2015 01:45 | 4d 23h | 1,784 | 7,503 |
| 2 | July 1, 2015 05:30 | July 1, 2015 06:00 | 30m | 1,356 | 514 |
| 3 | June 26, 2015 08:45 | June 26, 2015 20:45 | 12h | 1,076 | 6,303 |
| 4 | April 11, 2015 14:15 | April 11, 2015 16:15 | 2h | 1,013 | 783 |
| 5 | August 10, 2015 11:15 | August 11, 2015 00:45 | 13h 30m | 883 | 544 |
| 6 | September 6, 2015 22:45 | September 7, 2015 03:45 | 5h | 516 | 820 |
| 7 | November 11, 2015 20:30 | November 12, 2015 01:30 | 5h | 318 | 180 |
| 8 | March 13, 2015 03:15 | March 13, 2015 13:15 | 10h | 238 | 2,196 |
| 9 | July 7, 2015 03:15 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 11d 22h | 221 | 1,009 |
| 10 | September 11, 2015 05:30 | September 14, 2015 17:45 | 3d 12h | 181 | 2,039 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Missouri West | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | 1.55 | 1.8 hrs | 1.20 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2015 | 3.0 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Missouri's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,716 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MO annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/missouri/benton-county