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2016 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 558th 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 Buchanan 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 | October 23, 2016 13:30 | October 23, 2016 22:00 | 8h 30m | 15,672 | 29K |
| 2 | July 7, 2016 09:15 | July 8, 2016 21:15 | 1d 12h | 4,907 | 19K |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 15:30 | July 14, 2016 07:45 | 16h 15m | 4,355 | 11K |
| 4 | August 31, 2016 00:45 | August 31, 2016 03:45 | 3h | 3,909 | 3,911 |
| 5 | November 1, 2016 02:45 | November 1, 2016 03:00 | 15m | 3,905 | 976 |
| 6 | July 6, 2016 13:00 | July 7, 2016 03:45 | 14h 45m | 3,601 | 9,453 |
| 7 | June 22, 2016 13:45 | June 22, 2016 23:00 | 9h 15m | 2,572 | 2,233 |
| 8 | October 5, 2016 03:45 | October 5, 2016 06:30 | 2h 45m | 2,483 | 2,594 |
| 9 | October 24, 2016 16:15 | October 25, 2016 00:45 | 8h 30m | 1,804 | 1,381 |
| 10 | February 11, 2016 18:15 | February 11, 2016 18:30 | 15m | 1,734 | 434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 69 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Buchanan 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 Metro | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 | 67 min | 0.71 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.41 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.02 | 66 min | 0.79 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 85 min | 1.11 | 67 min | 0.99 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county