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2023 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 735th 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 Hickory 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 | September 22, 2023 05:15 | September 22, 2023 13:00 | 7h 45m | 1,924 | 8,952 |
| 2 | July 31, 2023 03:15 | July 31, 2023 16:30 | 13h 15m | 935 | 4,174 |
| 3 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 19, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 731 | 183 |
| 4 | March 31, 2023 21:15 | April 1, 2023 08:45 | 11h 30m | 716 | 1,358 |
| 5 | February 27, 2023 08:30 | February 27, 2023 20:00 | 11h 30m | 621 | 1,256 |
| 6 | September 21, 2023 14:00 | September 21, 2023 15:00 | 1h | 608 | 608 |
| 7 | May 8, 2023 09:30 | May 8, 2023 19:15 | 9h 45m | 511 | 2,798 |
| 8 | May 10, 2023 18:45 | May 10, 2023 22:15 | 3h 30m | 458 | 460 |
| 9 | April 25, 2023 14:15 | April 25, 2023 16:00 | 1h 45m | 454 | 794 |
| 10 | May 5, 2023 20:00 | May 5, 2023 20:45 | 45m | 453 | 340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 26 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.73 | 1.5 hrs | 1.01 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 5.7 hrs | 0.85 | 3.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county