County annual report · FIPS 29089
2020 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1337th 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 Howard 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 | January 24, 2020 12:15 | January 25, 2020 00:30 | 12h 15m | 1,170 | 5,314 |
| 2 | October 17, 2020 11:45 | October 17, 2020 13:15 | 1h 30m | 1,122 | 563 |
| 3 | January 24, 2020 09:00 | January 24, 2020 11:00 | 2h | 430 | 759 |
| 4 | January 2, 2020 21:30 | January 2, 2020 22:15 | 45m | 412 | 309 |
| 5 | January 17, 2020 22:45 | January 18, 2020 09:45 | 11h | 355 | 1,231 |
| 6 | June 8, 2020 14:00 | June 8, 2020 16:15 | 2h 15m | 355 | 534 |
| 7 | August 10, 2020 20:00 | August 11, 2020 21:45 | 1d 1h | 347 | 2,402 |
| 8 | July 1, 2020 17:30 | July 1, 2020 18:15 | 45m | 276 | 109 |
| 9 | July 1, 2020 12:30 | July 1, 2020 15:45 | 3h 15m | 177 | 289 |
| 10 | September 12, 2020 01:15 | September 12, 2020 04:00 | 2h 45m | 140 | 368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.86 | 86 min | 0.71 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.29 | 52 min | 0.89 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county