County annual report · FIPS 29015
2018 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 18.8 hours, a total of 126K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 96 Missouri counties and 300th 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 Benton 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 | January 30, 2018 00:00 | January 30, 2018 04:30 | 4h 30m | 16,454 | 15K |
| 2 | September 24, 2018 21:30 | September 25, 2018 00:00 | 2h 30m | 13,466 | 18K |
| 3 | February 24, 2018 03:45 | February 24, 2018 05:15 | 1h 30m | 5,493 | 4,617 |
| 4 | January 4, 2018 21:00 | January 5, 2018 00:30 | 3h 30m | 3,914 | 5,110 |
| 5 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 50d 9h | 3,425 | 7,275 |
| 6 | March 8, 2018 12:30 | March 8, 2018 14:30 | 2h | 2,202 | 1,936 |
| 7 | April 9, 2018 12:00 | April 9, 2018 13:00 | 1h | 1,750 | 1,021 |
| 8 | July 16, 2018 20:30 | July 17, 2018 00:00 | 3h 30m | 1,568 | 1,197 |
| 9 | April 9, 2018 18:15 | April 9, 2018 21:45 | 3h 30m | 1,540 | 1,165 |
| 10 | March 6, 2018 15:15 | March 7, 2018 02:45 | 11h 30m | 1,238 | 2,207 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 102 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Benton 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 Missouri West | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 90 min | 0.95 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 | 1.7 hrs | 0.99 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county