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2017 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 106 Missouri counties and 2518th 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 McDonald 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 5, 2017 00:00 | April 7, 2017 01:15 | 2d 1h | 2,089 | 16K |
| 2 | April 29, 2017 18:00 | April 29, 2017 21:30 | 3h 30m | 2,013 | 2,417 |
| 3 | February 21, 2017 17:30 | February 21, 2017 19:00 | 1h 30m | 1,241 | 1,303 |
| 4 | June 20, 2017 15:15 | June 20, 2017 15:30 | 15m | 1,241 | 310 |
| 5 | December 4, 2017 20:00 | December 4, 2017 21:00 | 1h | 774 | 618 |
| 6 | August 3, 2017 23:45 | August 4, 2017 00:45 | 1h | 652 | 492 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 04:15 | June 16, 2017 21:15 | 17h | 411 | 5,631 |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 08:30 | March 1, 2017 10:15 | 1h 45m | 102 | 137 |
| 9 | June 19, 2017 15:45 | June 19, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 102 | 77 |
| 10 | May 29, 2017 13:00 | May 29, 2017 14:15 | 1h 15m | 58 | 72 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McDonald 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 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2017 | 4.2 hrs | 1.94 | 84 min | 1.02 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county