County annual report · FIPS 29119
2018 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 2,099 customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 2738th 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 McDonald 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 17, 2018 13:15 | January 17, 2018 16:00 | 2h 45m | 652 | 1,648 |
| 2 | June 23, 2018 12:30 | June 23, 2018 13:30 | 1h | 68 | 68 |
| 3 | July 20, 2018 12:00 | July 20, 2018 12:30 | 30m | 57 | 29 |
| 4 | April 22, 2018 14:00 | April 22, 2018 15:15 | 1h 15m | 50 | 63 |
| 5 | April 9, 2018 14:00 | April 9, 2018 15:15 | 1h 15m | 45 | 56 |
| 6 | June 11, 2018 12:30 | June 11, 2018 13:00 | 30m | 40 | 20 |
| 7 | June 1, 2018 00:15 | June 1, 2018 01:15 | 1h | 36 | 36 |
| 8 | May 20, 2018 11:45 | May 20, 2018 14:00 | 2h 15m | 34 | 75 |
| 9 | November 4, 2018 10:15 | November 4, 2018 11:00 | 45m | 26 | 20 |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 13:30 | September 8, 2018 13:45 | 15m | 25 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 McDonald 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 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 89 min | 1.02 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county