County annual report · FIPS 29015
2017 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 106 Missouri counties and 1399th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2017 17:30 | April 30, 2017 01:30 | 8h | 907 | 6,262 |
| 2 | November 24, 2017 14:15 | November 24, 2017 17:00 | 2h 45m | 706 | 360 |
| 3 | August 5, 2017 17:30 | August 6, 2017 08:45 | 15h 15m | 535 | 1,531 |
| 4 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 17, 2017 23:30 | 4h 45m | 356 | 715 |
| 5 | January 10, 2017 15:30 | January 10, 2017 20:30 | 5h | 354 | 524 |
| 6 | February 22, 2017 19:45 | February 22, 2017 20:15 | 30m | 352 | 176 |
| 7 | May 27, 2017 19:00 | May 28, 2017 04:00 | 9h | 311 | 862 |
| 8 | June 26, 2017 20:00 | June 26, 2017 21:15 | 1h 15m | 228 | 285 |
| 9 | May 4, 2017 16:45 | May 4, 2017 19:30 | 2h 45m | 183 | 445 |
| 10 | July 19, 2017 15:30 | July 19, 2017 17:15 | 1h 45m | 174 | 288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 23 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.4 hrs | 1.21 | 77 min | 0.76 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.8 hrs | 1.38 | 1.8 hrs | 1.18 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | - | 2.0 hrs | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/missouri/benton-county