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2019 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1147th 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 Howard 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 21, 2019 03:45 | July 21, 2019 22:15 | 18h 30m | 881 | 5,039 |
| 2 | February 7, 2019 10:45 | February 7, 2019 12:00 | 1h 15m | 841 | 1,051 |
| 3 | June 12, 2019 21:30 | June 12, 2019 23:00 | 1h 30m | 840 | 1,050 |
| 4 | January 12, 2019 16:45 | January 14, 2019 10:00 | 1d 17h | 746 | 4,501 |
| 5 | May 25, 2019 02:45 | May 25, 2019 05:45 | 3h | 457 | 346 |
| 6 | January 12, 2019 05:00 | January 12, 2019 10:45 | 5h 45m | 442 | 1,213 |
| 7 | November 13, 2019 23:15 | November 14, 2019 01:30 | 2h 15m | 346 | 597 |
| 8 | August 29, 2019 23:15 | August 30, 2019 07:15 | 8h | 253 | 592 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 03:15 | November 27, 2019 15:15 | 12h | 232 | 1,467 |
| 10 | August 26, 2019 03:00 | August 26, 2019 04:45 | 1h 45m | 220 | 381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.85 | 86 min | 0.72 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2018 | 55 min | 0.62 | 50 min | 0.60 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county