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2021 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 21.6 hours, a total of 264K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 397th 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 Newton 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 | September 21, 2021 03:30 | September 21, 2021 15:00 | 11h 30m | 6,251 | 22K |
| 2 | March 9, 2021 20:15 | March 10, 2021 02:15 | 6h | 4,627 | 13K |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 13:15 | February 16, 2021 14:30 | 1h 15m | 4,604 | 3,966 |
| 4 | November 8, 2021 05:00 | November 8, 2021 07:00 | 2h | 4,476 | 5,750 |
| 5 | April 7, 2021 17:15 | April 7, 2021 21:00 | 3h 45m | 3,595 | 6,700 |
| 6 | September 30, 2021 12:15 | September 30, 2021 16:15 | 4h | 3,367 | 9,946 |
| 7 | October 14, 2021 06:45 | October 14, 2021 09:00 | 2h 15m | 3,118 | 6,007 |
| 8 | February 15, 2021 10:30 | February 15, 2021 15:45 | 5h 15m | 2,957 | 10K |
| 9 | August 30, 2021 04:15 | August 30, 2021 11:00 | 6h 45m | 2,443 | 7,042 |
| 10 | March 29, 2021 19:45 | March 29, 2021 20:15 | 30m | 2,188 | 1,094 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 90 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac 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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county