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2023 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 114 Missouri counties and 819th 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 Benton 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 31, 2023 02:45 | August 1, 2023 00:00 | 21h 15m | 2,380 | 9,829 |
| 2 | September 5, 2023 22:30 | September 6, 2023 21:00 | 22h 30m | 1,917 | 5,722 |
| 3 | July 2, 2023 01:45 | July 2, 2023 22:00 | 20h 15m | 1,742 | 6,016 |
| 4 | September 23, 2023 21:45 | September 24, 2023 05:45 | 8h | 1,480 | 4,088 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 22:15 | July 21, 2023 01:30 | 3h 15m | 1,136 | 337 |
| 6 | March 31, 2023 19:15 | April 1, 2023 17:00 | 21h 45m | 1,080 | 5,381 |
| 7 | August 1, 2023 07:45 | August 2, 2023 04:00 | 20h 15m | 1,078 | 3,742 |
| 8 | August 12, 2023 10:15 | August 12, 2023 20:45 | 10h 30m | 1,023 | 2,852 |
| 9 | October 30, 2023 17:15 | October 31, 2023 19:30 | 1d 2h | 985 | 1,502 |
| 10 | February 9, 2023 14:15 | February 9, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 851 | 639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 36 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 Missouri West | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.57 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 5.7 hrs | 0.85 | 3.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.24 | 76 min | 0.72 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 n/a of Missouri's customers in 2023; 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, 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/benton-county