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2017 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 106 Missouri counties and 547th 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 Newton 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 | July 22, 2017 12:45 | July 22, 2017 15:45 | 3h | 6,596 | 19K |
| 2 | July 22, 2017 05:00 | July 22, 2017 07:45 | 2h 45m | 5,336 | 7,279 |
| 3 | May 19, 2017 20:30 | May 20, 2017 08:45 | 12h 15m | 4,722 | 4,879 |
| 4 | March 10, 2017 01:30 | March 10, 2017 03:30 | 2h | 4,548 | 7,881 |
| 5 | April 5, 2017 00:15 | April 5, 2017 18:45 | 18h 30m | 3,759 | 24K |
| 6 | September 20, 2017 14:45 | September 20, 2017 15:15 | 30m | 3,088 | 1,543 |
| 7 | July 17, 2017 11:45 | July 17, 2017 23:30 | 11h 45m | 2,472 | 5,185 |
| 8 | April 16, 2017 17:00 | April 16, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 1,498 | 469 |
| 9 | September 29, 2017 02:15 | September 29, 2017 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,474 | 4,050 |
| 10 | April 18, 2017 13:00 | April 18, 2017 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,458 | 1,547 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac 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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county