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2020 Vernon County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Vernon County, MO went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 731st 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 Vernon 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 | November 10, 2020 16:00 | November 10, 2020 20:30 | 4h 30m | 6,744 | 21K |
| 2 | November 28, 2020 04:15 | November 28, 2020 06:00 | 1h 45m | 1,178 | 2,056 |
| 3 | July 8, 2020 23:30 | July 9, 2020 02:30 | 3h | 1,148 | 1,749 |
| 4 | November 14, 2020 19:45 | November 14, 2020 21:45 | 2h | 1,106 | 1,861 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 06:15 | January 11, 2020 15:30 | 9h 15m | 813 | 6,998 |
| 6 | October 17, 2020 13:45 | October 17, 2020 18:00 | 4h 15m | 812 | 1,869 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 01:30 | November 16, 2020 21:15 | 1d 19h | 733 | 4,685 |
| 8 | May 4, 2020 13:30 | May 5, 2020 10:45 | 21h 15m | 677 | 2,315 |
| 9 | October 26, 2020 16:30 | October 26, 2020 20:45 | 4h 15m | 568 | 1,568 |
| 10 | February 27, 2020 20:45 | February 28, 2020 04:45 | 8h | 509 | 1,280 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Vernon 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 Missouri West | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.47 | 2.0 hrs | 1.15 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec 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 ÷ 5,584 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county