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2017 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 106 Missouri counties and 760th 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 Hickory 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 | March 7, 2017 03:00 | March 7, 2017 16:45 | 13h 45m | 1,944 | 3,082 |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 06:30 | March 1, 2017 11:30 | 5h | 1,069 | 2,296 |
| 3 | October 6, 2017 05:30 | October 6, 2017 09:30 | 4h | 726 | 1,648 |
| 4 | October 22, 2017 05:45 | October 22, 2017 23:30 | 17h 45m | 608 | 3,195 |
| 5 | July 15, 2017 18:00 | July 15, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 382 | 894 |
| 6 | April 20, 2017 11:15 | April 20, 2017 12:45 | 1h 30m | 376 | 302 |
| 7 | June 17, 2017 08:15 | June 17, 2017 16:00 | 7h 45m | 331 | 1,176 |
| 8 | November 8, 2017 21:00 | November 8, 2017 23:00 | 2h | 310 | 498 |
| 9 | April 29, 2017 17:15 | April 29, 2017 23:30 | 6h 15m | 296 | 425 |
| 10 | May 2, 2017 15:00 | May 2, 2017 16:00 | 1h | 262 | 216 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.30 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.8 hrs | 1.38 | 1.8 hrs | 1.18 |
| Sac-Osage 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county