County annual report · FIPS 29129
2016 Mercer County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mercer County, MO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 305 customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 93 Missouri counties and 2193rd 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 Mercer County, 2016
The 6 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 | 56 | 14 |
| 2 | August 5, 2016 04:00 | August 5, 2016 06:00 | 2h | 55 | 110 |
| 3 | August 24, 2016 07:45 | August 24, 2016 09:45 | 2h | 55 | 110 |
| 4 | August 26, 2016 03:45 | August 26, 2016 05:00 | 1h 15m | 55 | 69 |
| 5 | February 29, 2016 19:45 | February 29, 2016 20:15 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | May 3, 2016 14:00 | May 3, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Mercer 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 |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,937 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county