County annual report · FIPS 29011
2019 Barton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Barton County, MO went without power for an average of 14.8 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 339th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2019
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 20, 2019 19:45 | May 25, 2019 00:30 | 4d 4h | 2,538 | 41K |
| 2 | August 7, 2019 16:30 | August 8, 2019 05:15 | 12h 45m | 1,768 | 2,367 |
| 3 | May 7, 2019 03:30 | May 8, 2019 02:45 | 23h 15m | 1,234 | 3,548 |
| 4 | April 14, 2019 06:00 | April 14, 2019 07:15 | 1h 15m | 489 | 399 |
| 5 | May 26, 2019 14:00 | May 26, 2019 17:45 | 3h 45m | 416 | 561 |
| 6 | September 11, 2019 00:15 | September 11, 2019 17:30 | 17h 15m | 270 | 369 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 06:45 | November 27, 2019 14:15 | 7h 30m | 224 | 1,307 |
| 8 | November 27, 2019 02:15 | November 27, 2019 06:00 | 3h 45m | 214 | 540 |
| 9 | July 5, 2019 09:00 | July 5, 2019 12:00 | 3h | 213 | 620 |
| 10 | November 5, 2019 21:30 | November 6, 2019 00:45 | 3h 15m | 209 | 676 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 23 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 90 min | 0.95 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 | 1.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lamar - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Liberal - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mindenmines - (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 95% of Missouri's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,120 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, MO annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/missouri/barton-county