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2023 Bates County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bates County, MO went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 946th 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 Bates 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 24, 2023 13:45 | July 24, 2023 23:30 | 9h 45m | 1,149 | 2,109 |
| 2 | July 13, 2023 02:00 | July 13, 2023 14:45 | 12h 45m | 1,109 | 6,029 |
| 3 | March 31, 2023 20:00 | April 1, 2023 05:00 | 9h | 928 | 2,695 |
| 4 | July 31, 2023 02:30 | August 1, 2023 22:15 | 1d 19h | 866 | 4,434 |
| 5 | September 22, 2023 00:15 | September 22, 2023 17:00 | 16h 45m | 690 | 1,679 |
| 6 | July 2, 2023 01:15 | July 2, 2023 05:30 | 4h 15m | 576 | 900 |
| 7 | October 18, 2023 15:15 | October 18, 2023 18:30 | 3h 15m | 534 | 546 |
| 8 | August 23, 2023 00:15 | August 23, 2023 02:00 | 1h 45m | 533 | 879 |
| 9 | August 14, 2023 02:30 | August 14, 2023 06:00 | 3h 30m | 531 | 1,415 |
| 10 | December 25, 2023 05:15 | December 25, 2023 12:00 | 6h 45m | 458 | 1,926 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 30 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Bates 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 Missouri West | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.57 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Butler - (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 ÷ 4,227 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. Bates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bates 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/bates-county