County annual report · FIPS 29015
2019 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1034th 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 Benton 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 | July 10, 2019 14:45 | July 11, 2019 03:30 | 12h 45m | 1,684 | 2,644 |
| 2 | August 27, 2019 20:30 | August 27, 2019 23:30 | 3h | 1,641 | 432 |
| 3 | July 21, 2019 06:15 | July 21, 2019 11:00 | 4h 45m | 856 | 1,843 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 12:45 | April 11, 2019 21:00 | 8h 15m | 637 | 503 |
| 5 | January 12, 2019 16:45 | February 21, 2019 23:30 | 40d 6h | 620 | 11K |
| 6 | June 27, 2019 09:15 | June 27, 2019 21:30 | 12h 15m | 558 | 864 |
| 7 | August 13, 2019 04:30 | August 14, 2019 01:30 | 21h | 391 | 2,485 |
| 8 | June 5, 2019 23:45 | June 6, 2019 07:00 | 7h 15m | 371 | 424 |
| 9 | June 23, 2019 04:00 | June 24, 2019 21:15 | 1d 17h | 340 | 2,286 |
| 10 | June 18, 2019 12:45 | June 18, 2019 23:30 | 10h 45m | 216 | 82 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Benton 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 Missouri West | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 90 min | 0.95 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 | 1.7 hrs | 0.99 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county