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2019 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2729th 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 McDonald 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 27, 2019 03:45 | November 27, 2019 13:00 | 9h 15m | 1,937 | 2,218 |
| 2 | June 23, 2019 13:00 | June 23, 2019 20:45 | 7h 45m | 1,926 | 6,692 |
| 3 | December 1, 2019 17:00 | December 1, 2019 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1,893 | 2,366 |
| 4 | August 27, 2019 04:15 | August 30, 2019 20:00 | 3d 15h | 1,831 | 43K |
| 5 | June 23, 2019 22:15 | June 24, 2019 02:15 | 4h | 1,261 | 589 |
| 6 | May 20, 2019 19:30 | May 20, 2019 20:15 | 45m | 1,260 | 682 |
| 7 | May 22, 2019 04:15 | May 22, 2019 06:45 | 2h 30m | 1,250 | 2,091 |
| 8 | November 11, 2019 12:30 | November 11, 2019 15:00 | 2h 30m | 657 | 1,378 |
| 9 | June 28, 2019 14:00 | June 28, 2019 16:45 | 2h 45m | 483 | 166 |
| 10 | October 11, 2019 10:45 | October 11, 2019 11:15 | 30m | 314 | 94 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 McDonald 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 | 1.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 89 min | 1.02 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county