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2018 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 761st 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 Newton 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 | May 5, 2018 14:15 | May 5, 2018 17:00 | 2h 45m | 3,274 | 7,929 |
| 2 | August 30, 2018 20:15 | August 30, 2018 23:00 | 2h 45m | 3,154 | 5,910 |
| 3 | February 20, 2018 16:45 | February 20, 2018 18:30 | 1h 45m | 3,130 | 3,931 |
| 4 | August 29, 2018 02:15 | August 29, 2018 05:15 | 3h | 2,785 | 6,551 |
| 5 | September 7, 2018 22:45 | September 8, 2018 00:00 | 1h 15m | 1,929 | 2,411 |
| 6 | December 1, 2018 12:15 | December 1, 2018 14:45 | 2h 30m | 1,773 | 4,433 |
| 7 | April 11, 2018 18:15 | April 11, 2018 19:00 | 45m | 1,722 | 1,292 |
| 8 | November 27, 2018 19:15 | November 27, 2018 20:45 | 1h 30m | 1,633 | 2,450 |
| 9 | May 3, 2018 06:30 | May 3, 2018 09:15 | 2h 45m | 1,581 | 4,016 |
| 10 | September 9, 2018 09:15 | September 9, 2018 16:15 | 7h | 1,533 | 2,223 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 64 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac 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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county