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2021 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 19.2 hours, a total of 435K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 452nd 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 Buchanan 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 | December 15, 2021 19:15 | December 19, 2021 05:45 | 3d 10h | 21,102 | 197K |
| 2 | July 10, 2021 07:30 | July 11, 2021 11:30 | 1d 4h | 10,703 | 84K |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 13:00 | February 17, 2021 06:00 | 17h | 6,446 | 25K |
| 4 | March 29, 2021 14:00 | March 30, 2021 06:00 | 16h | 4,676 | 6,286 |
| 5 | January 3, 2021 12:45 | January 4, 2021 23:00 | 1d 10h | 4,003 | 14K |
| 6 | June 11, 2021 18:15 | June 13, 2021 02:15 | 1d 8h | 2,950 | 27K |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 12:00 | February 15, 2021 21:00 | 9h | 2,425 | 3,873 |
| 8 | September 11, 2021 10:15 | September 11, 2021 11:30 | 1h 15m | 2,397 | 2,996 |
| 9 | June 25, 2021 01:45 | June 26, 2021 02:30 | 1d | 2,318 | 11K |
| 10 | April 8, 2021 05:45 | April 8, 2021 10:45 | 5h | 1,977 | 989 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 59 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Buchanan 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 Kansas Central, Inc | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.86 | 2.3 hrs | 1.22 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.35 | 44 min | 0.87 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county