County annual report · FIPS 29015
2020 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1758th 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 Benton 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 | September 21, 2020 13:45 | September 21, 2020 17:00 | 3h 15m | 1,090 | 831 |
| 2 | May 25, 2020 19:15 | May 26, 2020 02:00 | 6h 45m | 755 | 1,850 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 15:00 | December 23, 2020 17:45 | 2h 45m | 729 | 2,003 |
| 4 | September 3, 2020 15:00 | September 3, 2020 17:30 | 2h 30m | 446 | 452 |
| 5 | July 29, 2020 13:15 | July 30, 2020 02:15 | 13h | 438 | 540 |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 10:00 | July 20, 2020 21:00 | 11h | 372 | 640 |
| 7 | September 30, 2020 22:00 | October 1, 2020 00:00 | 2h | 369 | 278 |
| 8 | May 26, 2020 18:45 | May 26, 2020 19:45 | 1h | 344 | 344 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 19:00 | May 18, 2020 21:15 | 2h 15m | 343 | 549 |
| 10 | July 19, 2020 23:30 | July 20, 2020 07:00 | 7h 30m | 342 | 696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 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 Benton 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 Missouri West | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.47 | 2.0 hrs | 1.15 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 1.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 0.94 | 89 min | 0.81 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county