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2020 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 892nd 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 Newton 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 15, 2020 21:00 | May 16, 2020 01:45 | 4h 45m | 3,355 | 8,310 |
| 2 | April 28, 2020 23:30 | April 29, 2020 12:30 | 13h | 2,879 | 9,972 |
| 3 | May 3, 2020 15:00 | May 5, 2020 00:30 | 1d 9h | 2,202 | 9,363 |
| 4 | July 2, 2020 21:45 | July 3, 2020 06:15 | 8h 30m | 2,114 | 7,473 |
| 5 | December 23, 2020 06:15 | December 23, 2020 09:00 | 2h 45m | 1,816 | 524 |
| 6 | October 16, 2020 01:45 | October 16, 2020 10:30 | 8h 45m | 1,579 | 14K |
| 7 | March 30, 2020 12:45 | March 30, 2020 13:45 | 1h | 1,539 | 1,199 |
| 8 | July 17, 2020 02:30 | July 17, 2020 13:30 | 11h | 1,521 | 5,788 |
| 9 | August 10, 2020 23:00 | August 11, 2020 13:15 | 14h 15m | 1,410 | 4,375 |
| 10 | December 16, 2020 13:30 | December 16, 2020 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,409 | 2,338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 56 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac 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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county