County annual report · FIPS 29217
2021 Vernon County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Vernon County, MO went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Missouri average 4.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 736th 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 Vernon 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 22, 2021 15:30 | September 22, 2021 16:30 | 1h | 4,031 | 3,024 |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 09:30 | February 16, 2021 12:00 | 2h 30m | 3,286 | 8,209 |
| 3 | December 28, 2021 14:45 | December 28, 2021 18:15 | 3h 30m | 1,924 | 2,599 |
| 4 | January 1, 2021 09:30 | January 3, 2021 02:45 | 1d 17h | 1,755 | 13K |
| 5 | December 14, 2021 07:30 | December 14, 2021 19:30 | 12h | 1,704 | 1,322 |
| 6 | November 27, 2021 18:30 | November 28, 2021 03:30 | 9h | 1,007 | 2,134 |
| 7 | September 13, 2021 22:15 | September 14, 2021 03:45 | 5h 30m | 906 | 3,971 |
| 8 | November 25, 2021 15:30 | November 25, 2021 19:45 | 4h 15m | 877 | 3,456 |
| 9 | June 29, 2021 04:45 | June 29, 2021 08:00 | 3h 15m | 688 | 1,569 |
| 10 | February 11, 2021 10:45 | February 11, 2021 22:30 | 11h 45m | 618 | 212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 35 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Vernon 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 Missouri West | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.86 | 2.3 hrs | 1.22 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec 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 ÷ 5,584 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county