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2021 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 855th 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 Hickory 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 | July 24, 2021 16:00 | July 24, 2021 23:15 | 7h 15m | 1,919 | 8,124 |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 08:15 | January 2, 2021 01:45 | 17h 30m | 1,823 | 5,989 |
| 3 | December 10, 2021 23:45 | December 11, 2021 06:15 | 6h 30m | 1,779 | 2,509 |
| 4 | June 21, 2021 07:00 | June 21, 2021 09:00 | 2h | 913 | 1,241 |
| 5 | February 16, 2021 19:15 | February 16, 2021 19:45 | 30m | 636 | 171 |
| 6 | April 16, 2021 06:00 | April 16, 2021 13:15 | 7h 15m | 270 | 993 |
| 7 | April 2, 2021 14:45 | April 2, 2021 16:15 | 1h 30m | 223 | 306 |
| 8 | March 10, 2021 02:30 | March 10, 2021 05:45 | 3h 15m | 176 | 311 |
| 9 | June 11, 2021 23:45 | June 12, 2021 08:30 | 8h 45m | 168 | 898 |
| 10 | February 4, 2021 18:15 | February 4, 2021 19:30 | 1h 15m | 162 | 170 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.25 | 88 min | 0.98 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | 1.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Sac-Osage 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county