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2023 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1447th 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 Howard 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 | February 11, 2023 21:00 | February 11, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 980 | 245 |
| 2 | June 6, 2023 08:45 | June 6, 2023 19:15 | 10h 30m | 980 | 665 |
| 3 | July 14, 2023 23:45 | July 15, 2023 09:30 | 9h 45m | 912 | 2,718 |
| 4 | July 12, 2023 23:30 | July 13, 2023 08:30 | 9h | 600 | 1,678 |
| 5 | June 28, 2023 16:30 | June 28, 2023 17:45 | 1h 15m | 545 | 681 |
| 6 | September 16, 2023 17:15 | September 16, 2023 21:15 | 4h | 506 | 1,886 |
| 7 | December 16, 2023 08:30 | December 16, 2023 15:45 | 7h 15m | 427 | 2,866 |
| 8 | August 14, 2023 17:15 | August 14, 2023 18:00 | 45m | 349 | 262 |
| 9 | July 29, 2023 18:00 | July 31, 2023 15:30 | 1d 21h | 344 | 2,618 |
| 10 | November 13, 2023 21:15 | November 13, 2023 21:45 | 30m | 329 | 106 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 18 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2023 | 8.0 hrs | 1.18 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2023 | 86 min | 0.74 | 50 min | 0.60 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county