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2020 Lawrence County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lawrence County, MO went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1291st 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 Lawrence 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 | April 29, 2020 00:00 | April 29, 2020 14:45 | 14h 45m | 1,981 | 3,340 |
| 2 | April 8, 2020 05:30 | April 8, 2020 08:15 | 2h 45m | 1,630 | 4,224 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 10:00 | June 5, 2020 02:00 | 16h | 1,310 | 9,492 |
| 4 | July 4, 2020 21:45 | July 4, 2020 23:45 | 2h | 1,196 | 2,229 |
| 5 | August 29, 2020 15:15 | August 30, 2020 02:30 | 11h 15m | 1,156 | 4,280 |
| 6 | January 17, 2020 20:15 | January 17, 2020 22:30 | 2h 15m | 944 | 1,342 |
| 7 | August 15, 2020 11:15 | August 15, 2020 13:30 | 2h 15m | 621 | 1,129 |
| 8 | November 24, 2020 15:15 | November 24, 2020 22:15 | 7h | 621 | 4,211 |
| 9 | May 3, 2020 15:15 | May 3, 2020 21:00 | 5h 45m | 606 | 1,403 |
| 10 | October 21, 2020 12:15 | October 21, 2020 21:30 | 9h 15m | 532 | 1,936 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lawrence 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 |
| City of Monett - (MO) | 2020 | 20 min | 0.33 | 20 min | 0.33 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mount Vernon - (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 ÷ 9,841 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. Lawrence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence 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/lawrence-county