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2018 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 806th 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 Buchanan 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 | November 3, 2018 02:15 | November 3, 2018 04:00 | 1h 45m | 10,215 | 12K |
| 2 | November 25, 2018 13:30 | November 27, 2018 03:45 | 1d 14h | 6,244 | 41K |
| 3 | March 21, 2018 14:15 | March 21, 2018 21:15 | 7h | 3,997 | 1,074 |
| 4 | June 28, 2018 03:45 | June 28, 2018 07:30 | 3h 45m | 3,949 | 13K |
| 5 | July 4, 2018 08:45 | July 4, 2018 12:00 | 3h 15m | 3,941 | 7,881 |
| 6 | June 10, 2018 02:00 | June 10, 2018 06:45 | 4h 45m | 2,868 | 4,785 |
| 7 | January 1, 2018 13:00 | January 1, 2018 20:30 | 7h 30m | 2,796 | 6,744 |
| 8 | June 2, 2018 08:00 | June 3, 2018 19:00 | 1d 11h | 1,616 | 15K |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 13:45 | June 12, 2018 16:15 | 1d 2h | 1,469 | 4,764 |
| 10 | August 29, 2018 02:30 | August 29, 2018 19:00 | 16h 30m | 1,304 | 5,270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 52 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Buchanan 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 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 70 min | 0.88 | 55 min | 0.81 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county