County annual report · FIPS 29021
2019 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1282nd 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 Buchanan 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 | December 14, 2019 08:45 | December 14, 2019 11:45 | 3h | 9,898 | 30K |
| 2 | September 11, 2019 02:45 | September 11, 2019 11:45 | 9h | 2,785 | 2,056 |
| 3 | January 28, 2019 12:45 | January 29, 2019 01:30 | 12h 45m | 1,687 | 3,741 |
| 4 | July 5, 2019 02:45 | July 5, 2019 04:45 | 2h | 1,490 | 1,494 |
| 5 | May 24, 2019 21:45 | May 25, 2019 09:00 | 11h 15m | 1,261 | 2,358 |
| 6 | September 14, 2019 18:45 | September 15, 2019 01:15 | 6h 30m | 1,151 | 916 |
| 7 | June 22, 2019 22:00 | June 24, 2019 03:15 | 1d 5h | 1,131 | 6,188 |
| 8 | June 1, 2019 02:45 | June 1, 2019 10:00 | 7h 15m | 938 | 962 |
| 9 | May 25, 2019 09:45 | May 29, 2019 15:15 | 4d 5h | 914 | 2,456 |
| 10 | August 30, 2019 02:30 | August 31, 2019 03:15 | 1d | 885 | 4,434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 52 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Buchanan 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 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 70 min | 0.88 | 55 min | 0.81 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county