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2020 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 33.1 hours, a total of 751K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 246th 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 Buchanan 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 | June 27, 2020 06:30 | July 1, 2020 02:15 | 3d 19h | 22,861 | 264K |
| 2 | December 29, 2020 16:00 | December 31, 2020 00:15 | 1d 8h | 18,375 | 184K |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 23:30 | June 6, 2020 04:15 | 2d 4h | 18,018 | 136K |
| 4 | October 19, 2020 15:00 | October 20, 2020 05:30 | 14h 30m | 9,914 | 19K |
| 5 | March 9, 2020 06:45 | March 9, 2020 15:30 | 8h 45m | 6,469 | 21K |
| 6 | January 10, 2020 20:30 | January 11, 2020 21:30 | 1d 1h | 4,099 | 21K |
| 7 | August 2, 2020 02:15 | August 2, 2020 07:45 | 5h 30m | 3,958 | 8,321 |
| 8 | October 31, 2020 04:15 | October 31, 2020 09:45 | 5h 30m | 2,565 | 4,501 |
| 9 | July 27, 2020 14:00 | July 27, 2020 22:00 | 8h | 1,778 | 5,116 |
| 10 | December 22, 2020 15:00 | December 23, 2020 00:00 | 9h | 1,749 | 2,345 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 79 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Buchanan 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 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 78 min | 1.07 | 43 min | 0.69 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county