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2017 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 106 Missouri counties and 966th 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 Buchanan 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 | November 17, 2017 21:30 | November 18, 2017 00:45 | 3h 15m | 13,009 | 16K |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 23:15 | June 19, 2017 21:00 | 2d 21h | 11,114 | 44K |
| 3 | September 1, 2017 16:45 | September 1, 2017 19:45 | 3h | 4,108 | 2,146 |
| 4 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 18, 2017 02:45 | 8h | 3,995 | 4,163 |
| 5 | August 27, 2017 15:00 | August 27, 2017 22:00 | 7h | 2,633 | 1,987 |
| 6 | April 26, 2017 10:15 | April 26, 2017 20:15 | 10h | 2,618 | 4,081 |
| 7 | April 29, 2017 20:00 | April 30, 2017 08:15 | 12h 15m | 1,789 | 4,964 |
| 8 | March 6, 2017 15:00 | March 6, 2017 15:15 | 15m | 1,375 | 344 |
| 9 | October 21, 2017 11:45 | October 21, 2017 15:45 | 4h | 1,363 | 4,827 |
| 10 | July 16, 2017 12:00 | July 16, 2017 16:45 | 4h 45m | 1,335 | 750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 54 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 Metro | 2017 | 8.6 hrs | 1.37 | 73 min | 0.71 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.23 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2017 | 4.4 hrs | 1.21 | 77 min | 0.76 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 1.30 | 58 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/buchanan-county