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2021 Bates County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bates County, MO went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1240th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bates County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11, 2021 10:00 | October 11, 2021 13:30 | 3h 30m | 838 | 854 |
| 2 | December 15, 2021 18:45 | December 16, 2021 18:15 | 23h 30m | 704 | 7,129 |
| 3 | September 24, 2021 13:15 | September 24, 2021 14:00 | 45m | 505 | 127 |
| 4 | September 9, 2021 14:30 | September 9, 2021 16:30 | 2h | 421 | 425 |
| 5 | December 13, 2021 20:15 | December 13, 2021 21:00 | 45m | 345 | 259 |
| 6 | August 13, 2021 01:30 | August 14, 2021 02:15 | 1d | 322 | 1,604 |
| 7 | July 27, 2021 13:15 | July 27, 2021 19:15 | 6h | 318 | 185 |
| 8 | July 25, 2021 15:30 | July 25, 2021 21:15 | 5h 45m | 313 | 1,062 |
| 9 | September 21, 2021 15:30 | September 21, 2021 23:00 | 7h 30m | 312 | 109 |
| 10 | September 7, 2021 08:15 | September 7, 2021 13:45 | 5h 30m | 310 | 861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 23 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Bates County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.57 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.86 | 2.3 hrs | 1.22 |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Butler - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,227 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. Bates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bates County, MO annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/missouri/bates-county