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2020 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 6,026 customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2969th 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 McDonald 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 | July 22, 2020 07:30 | July 22, 2020 10:15 | 2h 45m | 1,267 | 2,927 |
| 2 | April 18, 2020 02:00 | April 18, 2020 02:30 | 30m | 1,266 | 633 |
| 3 | March 5, 2020 17:30 | March 5, 2020 21:15 | 3h 45m | 790 | 658 |
| 4 | April 19, 2020 22:45 | April 19, 2020 23:45 | 1h | 325 | 325 |
| 5 | November 22, 2020 04:45 | November 22, 2020 06:15 | 1h 30m | 131 | 197 |
| 6 | June 24, 2020 15:45 | June 24, 2020 19:45 | 4h | 69 | 267 |
| 7 | October 17, 2020 19:15 | October 17, 2020 20:15 | 1h | 59 | 59 |
| 8 | August 10, 2020 23:15 | August 11, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 49 | 60 |
| 9 | June 20, 2020 21:45 | June 20, 2020 22:30 | 45m | 47 | 35 |
| 10 | October 17, 2020 21:15 | October 17, 2020 23:30 | 2h 15m | 47 | 106 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 McDonald 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 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.40 | 1.8 hrs | 1.40 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county