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2021 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 702nd 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 Howard 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 | June 21, 2021 03:15 | June 21, 2021 18:00 | 14h 45m | 1,415 | 12K |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 12:00 | January 4, 2021 09:00 | 2d 21h | 744 | 8,870 |
| 3 | June 25, 2021 04:30 | June 26, 2021 13:30 | 1d 9h | 698 | 3,931 |
| 4 | December 14, 2021 12:15 | December 14, 2021 13:30 | 1h 15m | 560 | 700 |
| 5 | August 3, 2021 16:15 | August 4, 2021 15:15 | 23h | 420 | 9,556 |
| 6 | October 13, 2021 15:45 | October 13, 2021 17:15 | 1h 30m | 310 | 403 |
| 7 | August 2, 2021 08:00 | August 2, 2021 11:00 | 3h | 307 | 709 |
| 8 | June 29, 2021 16:15 | June 29, 2021 17:15 | 1h | 306 | 240 |
| 9 | January 4, 2021 10:45 | January 5, 2021 01:45 | 15h | 301 | 1,430 |
| 10 | October 21, 2021 16:45 | October 21, 2021 17:15 | 30m | 149 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.5 hrs | 0.69 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 | 67 min | 0.64 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county