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2022 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 987th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 1, 2022 15:00 | January 2, 2022 05:30 | 14h 30m | 1,248 | 5,456 |
| 2 | August 4, 2022 05:15 | August 4, 2022 22:45 | 17h 30m | 1,224 | 3,219 |
| 3 | September 18, 2022 16:30 | September 18, 2022 23:45 | 7h 15m | 1,072 | 2,627 |
| 4 | November 15, 2022 14:30 | November 15, 2022 17:45 | 3h 15m | 999 | 366 |
| 5 | August 17, 2022 16:45 | August 18, 2022 00:15 | 7h 30m | 796 | 235 |
| 6 | January 6, 2022 18:00 | January 7, 2022 00:30 | 6h 30m | 781 | 217 |
| 7 | January 6, 2022 08:30 | January 6, 2022 12:30 | 4h | 774 | 3,096 |
| 8 | April 24, 2022 13:45 | April 24, 2022 16:30 | 2h 45m | 765 | 1,699 |
| 9 | October 14, 2022 22:30 | October 15, 2022 04:00 | 5h 30m | 671 | 2,216 |
| 10 | February 17, 2022 13:15 | February 17, 2022 18:00 | 4h 45m | 670 | 2,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 38 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 Missouri West | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 1.39 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 0.66 | 1.9 hrs | 0.61 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 0.81 | 81 min | 0.64 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.59 | 2.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MO annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/missouri/benton-county