County annual report · FIPS 29011
2018 Barton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barton County, MO went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 6,804 customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 96 Missouri counties and 2017th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 7, 2018 23:15 | May 8, 2018 00:00 | 45m | 4,086 | 2,425 |
| 2 | August 16, 2018 18:45 | August 16, 2018 19:45 | 1h | 1,731 | 1,521 |
| 3 | July 21, 2018 17:15 | July 21, 2018 21:45 | 4h 30m | 270 | 706 |
| 4 | February 10, 2018 20:00 | February 10, 2018 20:45 | 45m | 196 | 147 |
| 5 | July 23, 2018 15:00 | July 23, 2018 15:15 | 15m | 80 | 20 |
| 6 | August 19, 2018 22:30 | August 19, 2018 23:30 | 1h | 70 | 64 |
| 7 | January 5, 2018 00:00 | January 5, 2018 00:15 | 15m | 63 | 16 |
| 8 | May 6, 2018 23:00 | May 7, 2018 01:30 | 2h 30m | 61 | 153 |
| 9 | January 16, 2018 13:15 | January 16, 2018 14:15 | 1h | 50 | 47 |
| 10 | March 12, 2018 16:00 | March 12, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 47 | 35 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.00 | 72 min | 0.78 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.16 | 1.5 hrs | 0.91 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 90 min | 0.95 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 | 1.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lamar - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Liberal - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mindenmines - (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 80% of Missouri's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,120 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, MO annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/missouri/barton-county