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2021 Jackson County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Jackson County, MO went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1053rd 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 Jackson 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 | February 14, 2021 17:30 | February 18, 2021 07:45 | 3d 14h | 42,597 | 186K |
| 2 | December 14, 2021 14:00 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 16d 10h | 18,941 | 270K |
| 3 | August 10, 2021 13:45 | August 17, 2021 03:45 | 6d 14h | 17,369 | 126K |
| 4 | June 10, 2021 11:30 | June 14, 2021 06:30 | 3d 19h | 14,701 | 105K |
| 5 | August 20, 2021 12:15 | August 24, 2021 23:30 | 4d 11h | 11,821 | 84K |
| 6 | July 10, 2021 08:00 | July 12, 2021 04:15 | 1d 20h | 8,131 | 67K |
| 7 | September 3, 2021 11:15 | September 5, 2021 08:15 | 1d 21h | 6,522 | 18K |
| 8 | May 12, 2021 12:15 | May 13, 2021 05:15 | 17h | 5,206 | 1,664 |
| 9 | November 24, 2021 06:00 | November 25, 2021 01:15 | 19h 15m | 4,610 | 3,471 |
| 10 | October 28, 2021 08:30 | October 30, 2021 04:45 | 1d 20h | 4,250 | 7,672 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 198 reached 100+ customers, 64 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Jackson 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 |
| West Central Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | 1.56 | 1.6 hrs | - |
| City of Independence - (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 ÷ 202,364 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county