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2018 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 96 Missouri counties and 686th 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 Hickory 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 | April 11, 2018 17:00 | April 11, 2018 17:45 | 45m | 1,881 | 1,410 |
| 2 | June 26, 2018 21:00 | June 27, 2018 06:30 | 9h 30m | 1,368 | 4,212 |
| 3 | August 20, 2018 22:30 | August 21, 2018 01:45 | 3h 15m | 1,037 | 308 |
| 4 | April 24, 2018 15:45 | April 24, 2018 16:45 | 1h | 533 | 188 |
| 5 | September 25, 2018 12:15 | September 25, 2018 15:30 | 3h 15m | 448 | 705 |
| 6 | May 20, 2018 08:30 | May 20, 2018 09:00 | 30m | 421 | 170 |
| 7 | August 30, 2018 15:30 | August 30, 2018 18:00 | 2h 30m | 421 | 844 |
| 8 | March 19, 2018 13:45 | March 20, 2018 14:45 | 1d 1h | 404 | 8,706 |
| 9 | October 5, 2018 09:30 | October 5, 2018 14:15 | 4h 45m | 375 | 1,034 |
| 10 | December 1, 2018 04:30 | December 1, 2018 14:00 | 9h 30m | 200 | 735 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 16 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 | 1.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 | 1.7 hrs | 0.99 |
| Sac-Osage 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 80% of Missouri's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county