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2020 Butler County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Butler County, MO went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2554th 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 Butler 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 3, 2020 18:15 | May 3, 2020 21:00 | 2h 45m | 3,760 | 8,617 |
| 2 | May 4, 2020 20:45 | May 5, 2020 01:00 | 4h 15m | 2,240 | 5,162 |
| 3 | July 12, 2020 11:15 | July 12, 2020 20:30 | 9h 15m | 861 | 7,153 |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 04:00 | June 9, 2020 17:15 | 13h 15m | 710 | 2,867 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 07:15 | April 13, 2020 08:45 | 1h 30m | 698 | 1,047 |
| 6 | June 8, 2020 14:15 | June 8, 2020 15:00 | 45m | 452 | 114 |
| 7 | July 19, 2020 12:00 | July 19, 2020 13:15 | 1h 15m | 407 | 348 |
| 8 | August 31, 2020 20:00 | September 1, 2020 02:30 | 6h 30m | 386 | 478 |
| 9 | March 5, 2020 16:00 | March 5, 2020 17:30 | 1h 30m | 341 | 96 |
| 10 | November 15, 2020 06:30 | November 15, 2020 08:15 | 1h 45m | 335 | 372 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.86 | 86 min | 0.71 |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Poplar Bluff - (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 ÷ 33,933 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county