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2020 Barton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barton County, MO went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1142nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 22, 2020 19:00 | February 22, 2020 20:30 | 1h 30m | 1,793 | 2,435 |
| 2 | August 29, 2020 14:30 | August 30, 2020 04:45 | 14h 15m | 1,252 | 5,772 |
| 3 | January 20, 2020 16:30 | January 20, 2020 23:00 | 6h 30m | 504 | 852 |
| 4 | June 4, 2020 09:30 | June 4, 2020 23:15 | 13h 45m | 463 | 1,340 |
| 5 | January 18, 2020 06:30 | January 18, 2020 12:30 | 6h | 364 | 1,041 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 15:00 | July 1, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 314 | 314 |
| 7 | July 6, 2020 15:15 | July 6, 2020 19:45 | 4h 30m | 271 | 537 |
| 8 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | April 15, 2020 15:30 | 18h 45m | 260 | 456 |
| 9 | October 17, 2020 16:15 | October 17, 2020 22:30 | 6h 15m | 218 | 661 |
| 10 | October 14, 2020 01:45 | October 14, 2020 07:30 | 5h 45m | 209 | 1,045 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 28 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.5 hrs | 0.84 | 72 min | 0.76 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.47 | 2.0 hrs | 1.15 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2020 | 70 min | 0.78 | 66 min | 0.70 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lamar - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Liberal - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mindenmines - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,120 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, MO annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/missouri/barton-county