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2020 Bates County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bates County, MO went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1167th 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 Bates 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 | May 4, 2020 15:15 | May 6, 2020 00:15 | 1d 9h | 2,782 | 10K |
| 2 | May 21, 2020 19:15 | May 21, 2020 21:45 | 2h 30m | 691 | 742 |
| 3 | March 8, 2020 18:45 | March 8, 2020 19:30 | 45m | 689 | 304 |
| 4 | June 27, 2020 11:15 | June 27, 2020 16:30 | 5h 15m | 688 | 3,304 |
| 5 | May 3, 2020 14:00 | May 3, 2020 21:00 | 7h | 417 | 818 |
| 6 | June 4, 2020 08:30 | June 4, 2020 21:15 | 12h 45m | 340 | 1,455 |
| 7 | October 28, 2020 04:15 | October 28, 2020 16:15 | 12h | 335 | 894 |
| 8 | August 9, 2020 20:00 | August 9, 2020 20:15 | 15m | 328 | 82 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 16:15 | May 18, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 326 | 406 |
| 10 | October 17, 2020 16:45 | October 18, 2020 04:30 | 11h 45m | 280 | 339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Bates 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 Missouri West | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.47 | 2.0 hrs | 1.15 |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Butler - (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 ÷ 4,227 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. Bates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bates 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/bates-county