County annual report · FIPS 29109
2018 Lawrence County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lawrence County, MO went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 728th 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 Lawrence 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 | December 1, 2018 07:00 | December 2, 2018 22:00 | 1d 15h | 4,869 | 53K |
| 2 | August 20, 2018 00:00 | August 20, 2018 12:00 | 12h | 4,173 | 11K |
| 3 | July 12, 2018 02:00 | July 12, 2018 03:00 | 1h | 1,230 | 1,007 |
| 4 | May 10, 2018 10:00 | May 10, 2018 13:45 | 3h 45m | 1,168 | 1,596 |
| 5 | August 27, 2018 15:15 | August 27, 2018 17:30 | 2h 15m | 861 | 1,845 |
| 6 | September 27, 2018 19:00 | September 27, 2018 19:30 | 30m | 861 | 231 |
| 7 | May 8, 2018 20:45 | May 8, 2018 22:00 | 1h 15m | 619 | 622 |
| 8 | July 19, 2018 23:30 | July 20, 2018 06:00 | 6h 30m | 599 | 1,898 |
| 9 | January 21, 2018 10:00 | January 21, 2018 10:30 | 30m | 151 | 68 |
| 10 | July 9, 2018 19:30 | July 9, 2018 21:00 | 1h 30m | 103 | 155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Lawrence 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 |
| City of Monett - (MO) | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 0.94 | 23 min | 0.46 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mount Vernon - (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 ÷ 9,841 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. Lawrence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence 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/lawrence-county