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2023 Barton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barton County, MO went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1011th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 30, 2023 22:45 | August 3, 2023 20:15 | 3d 21h | 1,333 | 19K |
| 2 | March 17, 2023 14:15 | March 17, 2023 17:15 | 3h | 635 | 339 |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 22:30 | August 5, 2023 02:15 | 3h 45m | 633 | 1,583 |
| 4 | June 5, 2023 18:00 | June 5, 2023 21:00 | 3h | 631 | 488 |
| 5 | June 17, 2023 00:15 | June 17, 2023 03:30 | 3h 15m | 631 | 1,740 |
| 6 | February 8, 2023 17:00 | February 8, 2023 17:45 | 45m | 351 | 89 |
| 7 | March 31, 2023 01:00 | March 31, 2023 04:45 | 3h 45m | 351 | 789 |
| 8 | April 24, 2023 00:15 | April 24, 2023 02:15 | 2h | 350 | 700 |
| 9 | August 22, 2023 15:00 | August 22, 2023 18:00 | 3h | 313 | 270 |
| 10 | April 7, 2023 15:15 | April 7, 2023 17:00 | 1h 45m | 273 | 431 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 7.8 hrs | 1.41 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2023 | 3.3 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.99 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.57 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.73 | 1.5 hrs | 1.01 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lamar - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Liberal - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mindenmines - (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 n/a of Missouri's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,120 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, MO annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/missouri/barton-county