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2023 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 967th 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 Buchanan 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 1, 2023 03:00 | July 2, 2023 09:00 | 1d 6h | 12,623 | 62K |
| 2 | December 20, 2023 17:45 | December 20, 2023 22:15 | 4h 30m | 10,041 | 9,895 |
| 3 | July 5, 2023 05:00 | July 6, 2023 07:00 | 1d 2h | 5,446 | 29K |
| 4 | July 31, 2023 00:30 | August 1, 2023 20:00 | 1d 19h | 2,888 | 13K |
| 5 | June 12, 2023 20:45 | June 13, 2023 00:00 | 3h 15m | 2,385 | 1,838 |
| 6 | April 15, 2023 06:00 | April 15, 2023 16:45 | 10h 45m | 2,384 | 6,489 |
| 7 | June 15, 2023 16:15 | June 15, 2023 17:15 | 1h | 2,377 | 1,218 |
| 8 | June 23, 2023 14:00 | June 23, 2023 17:15 | 3h 15m | 2,337 | 2,078 |
| 9 | August 13, 2023 12:30 | August 13, 2023 21:30 | 9h | 2,336 | 5,490 |
| 10 | August 3, 2023 14:00 | August 3, 2023 15:15 | 1h 15m | 2,158 | 1,080 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 75 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Buchanan 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 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 88 min | 1.19 | 64 min | 0.76 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county