County annual report · FIPS 29015
2016 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 6,662 customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 93 Missouri counties and 1786th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 25, 2016 21:45 | June 25, 2016 22:00 | 15m | 1,438 | 360 |
| 2 | May 19, 2016 14:15 | May 19, 2016 16:45 | 2h 30m | 740 | 225 |
| 3 | June 22, 2016 13:15 | June 22, 2016 14:00 | 45m | 715 | 508 |
| 4 | July 13, 2016 18:30 | July 14, 2016 02:15 | 7h 45m | 564 | 1,260 |
| 5 | November 17, 2016 20:00 | November 17, 2016 22:00 | 2h | 352 | 433 |
| 6 | October 13, 2016 15:15 | October 13, 2016 16:00 | 45m | 308 | 231 |
| 7 | August 3, 2016 06:30 | August 3, 2016 21:00 | 14h 30m | 221 | 116 |
| 8 | May 20, 2016 15:45 | May 20, 2016 17:30 | 1h 45m | 217 | 380 |
| 9 | January 29, 2016 16:45 | January 29, 2016 17:00 | 15m | 182 | 46 |
| 10 | September 26, 2016 16:15 | September 26, 2016 17:15 | 1h | 170 | 44 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.02 | 66 min | 0.79 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.8 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/missouri/benton-county