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2019 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 390th 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 Newton 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 | September 21, 2019 14:45 | September 21, 2019 18:00 | 3h 15m | 4,388 | 6,592 |
| 2 | June 11, 2019 13:15 | June 11, 2019 23:00 | 9h 45m | 3,424 | 2,834 |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 04:45 | October 21, 2019 13:45 | 9h | 3,247 | 13K |
| 4 | March 9, 2019 19:30 | March 10, 2019 04:30 | 9h | 3,139 | 9,025 |
| 5 | October 15, 2019 23:15 | October 16, 2019 06:45 | 7h 30m | 3,107 | 7,859 |
| 6 | June 16, 2019 19:45 | June 17, 2019 01:00 | 5h 15m | 2,805 | 14K |
| 7 | June 9, 2019 21:45 | June 10, 2019 00:15 | 2h 30m | 2,803 | 7,007 |
| 8 | May 10, 2019 22:15 | May 11, 2019 00:15 | 2h | 2,686 | 4,965 |
| 9 | July 22, 2019 20:15 | July 22, 2019 22:15 | 2h | 1,823 | 2,312 |
| 10 | August 27, 2019 02:00 | August 27, 2019 10:15 | 8h 15m | 1,822 | 4,807 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 81 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county