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2016 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 777th 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 Howard 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 | March 29, 2016 17:15 | March 29, 2016 17:30 | 15m | 1,090 | 273 |
| 2 | July 7, 2016 12:00 | July 8, 2016 04:00 | 16h | 1,088 | 4,301 |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 17:45 | July 14, 2016 15:15 | 21h 30m | 1,088 | 3,482 |
| 4 | December 12, 2016 23:45 | December 13, 2016 02:00 | 2h 15m | 792 | 1,782 |
| 5 | July 3, 2016 05:45 | July 3, 2016 13:15 | 7h 30m | 774 | 3,569 |
| 6 | August 7, 2016 14:00 | August 7, 2016 20:15 | 6h 15m | 599 | 2,194 |
| 7 | April 26, 2016 16:00 | April 27, 2016 00:15 | 8h 15m | 342 | 827 |
| 8 | July 19, 2016 23:45 | July 20, 2016 00:15 | 30m | 216 | 63 |
| 9 | July 6, 2016 15:45 | July 6, 2016 18:00 | 2h 15m | 93 | 97 |
| 10 | July 22, 2016 12:15 | July 22, 2016 14:30 | 2h 15m | 33 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.13 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.97 | 60 min | 0.72 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county