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2020 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 910th 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 Hickory 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 3, 2020 13:30 | June 3, 2020 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1,893 | 1,033 |
| 2 | May 4, 2020 17:15 | May 5, 2020 23:45 | 1d 6h | 1,158 | 8,148 |
| 3 | November 21, 2020 14:00 | November 21, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 946 | 957 |
| 4 | November 9, 2020 12:45 | November 9, 2020 13:45 | 1h | 755 | 424 |
| 5 | October 14, 2020 17:30 | October 14, 2020 18:00 | 30m | 585 | 293 |
| 6 | July 31, 2020 14:15 | July 31, 2020 17:30 | 3h 15m | 452 | 1,002 |
| 7 | December 19, 2020 18:30 | December 19, 2020 18:45 | 15m | 451 | 113 |
| 8 | July 29, 2020 13:45 | July 29, 2020 15:15 | 1h 30m | 444 | 487 |
| 9 | September 3, 2020 16:15 | September 3, 2020 18:15 | 2h | 444 | 445 |
| 10 | August 11, 2020 00:00 | August 11, 2020 13:30 | 13h 30m | 391 | 1,543 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 20 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2020 | 70 min | 0.78 | 66 min | 0.70 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 1.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county