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2018 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 96 Missouri counties and 1476th 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 Howard 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 8, 2018 16:30 | January 8, 2018 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,082 | 1,083 |
| 2 | June 16, 2018 22:00 | June 17, 2018 04:00 | 6h | 833 | 4,779 |
| 3 | August 31, 2018 18:30 | September 1, 2018 03:15 | 8h 45m | 830 | 1,895 |
| 4 | January 7, 2018 23:00 | January 8, 2018 04:15 | 5h 15m | 823 | 1,459 |
| 5 | August 7, 2018 04:45 | August 7, 2018 16:15 | 11h 30m | 335 | 1,553 |
| 6 | September 8, 2018 14:45 | September 8, 2018 19:15 | 4h 30m | 333 | 282 |
| 7 | August 12, 2018 07:15 | August 12, 2018 08:45 | 1h 30m | 133 | 200 |
| 8 | September 6, 2018 07:30 | September 6, 2018 14:45 | 7h 15m | 125 | 752 |
| 9 | November 25, 2018 23:00 | November 26, 2018 16:45 | 17h 45m | 100 | 486 |
| 10 | November 25, 2018 16:00 | November 25, 2018 18:15 | 2h 15m | 58 | 92 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.85 | 86 min | 0.72 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2018 | 55 min | 0.62 | 50 min | 0.60 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county