County annual report · FIPS 29023
2023 Butler County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, MO went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2395th 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 Butler 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 | January 25, 2023 03:00 | January 30, 2023 17:15 | 5d 14h | 2,125 | 19K |
| 2 | July 1, 2023 21:00 | July 2, 2023 13:45 | 16h 45m | 911 | 9,417 |
| 3 | February 27, 2023 13:30 | February 27, 2023 16:15 | 2h 45m | 883 | 563 |
| 4 | February 27, 2023 03:45 | February 27, 2023 05:30 | 1h 45m | 791 | 480 |
| 5 | June 29, 2023 20:15 | June 29, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 751 | 752 |
| 6 | May 13, 2023 13:30 | May 13, 2023 18:15 | 4h 45m | 741 | 1,317 |
| 7 | December 2, 2023 09:15 | December 2, 2023 12:15 | 3h | 731 | 2,087 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 16:45 | April 5, 2023 19:30 | 2h 45m | 496 | 500 |
| 9 | March 3, 2023 18:00 | March 4, 2023 02:45 | 8h 45m | 485 | 1,133 |
| 10 | January 19, 2023 15:30 | January 19, 2023 16:15 | 45m | 459 | 230 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 44 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2023 | 8.0 hrs | 1.18 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Poplar Bluff - (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 ÷ 33,933 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county