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2019 Butler County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Butler County, MO went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2652nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler 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 | November 22, 2019 11:00 | November 22, 2019 20:00 | 9h | 1,900 | 7,500 |
| 2 | October 15, 2019 23:15 | October 16, 2019 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,029 | 1,286 |
| 3 | August 26, 2019 23:00 | August 27, 2019 06:30 | 7h 30m | 706 | 1,719 |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 18:45 | July 19, 2019 21:30 | 2h 45m | 428 | 324 |
| 5 | September 12, 2019 12:00 | September 12, 2019 13:30 | 1h 30m | 385 | 482 |
| 6 | August 22, 2019 16:15 | August 22, 2019 16:45 | 30m | 277 | 139 |
| 7 | September 14, 2019 13:45 | September 14, 2019 18:45 | 5h | 241 | 610 |
| 8 | November 14, 2019 22:15 | November 15, 2019 01:15 | 3h | 210 | 506 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 08:15 | November 27, 2019 19:45 | 11h 30m | 202 | 2,031 |
| 10 | August 15, 2019 18:30 | August 15, 2019 19:15 | 45m | 166 | 125 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 18 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.85 | 86 min | 0.72 |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Poplar Bluff - (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 ÷ 33,933 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county