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2023 Lafayette County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lafayette County, MO went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1439th 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 Lafayette 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 | August 26, 2023 13:15 | August 26, 2023 14:15 | 1h | 3,539 | 3,539 |
| 2 | May 3, 2023 00:00 | May 3, 2023 04:30 | 4h 30m | 3,232 | 9,167 |
| 3 | June 5, 2023 23:30 | June 6, 2023 01:00 | 1h 30m | 3,224 | 4,071 |
| 4 | July 14, 2023 22:00 | July 16, 2023 08:00 | 1d 10h | 2,032 | 6,649 |
| 5 | May 8, 2023 06:45 | May 8, 2023 17:30 | 10h 45m | 1,165 | 5,843 |
| 6 | July 28, 2023 05:15 | July 28, 2023 07:00 | 1h 45m | 622 | 910 |
| 7 | January 3, 2023 00:00 | January 3, 2023 13:15 | 13h 15m | 576 | 7,227 |
| 8 | October 30, 2023 19:00 | October 30, 2023 19:45 | 45m | 508 | 381 |
| 9 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 11, 2023 14:30 | 45m | 482 | 123 |
| 10 | July 5, 2023 05:30 | July 5, 2023 08:30 | 3h | 482 | 572 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 30 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lafayette 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 |
| West Central Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.10 | 61 min | - |
| City of Ava - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Higginsville - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Odessa - (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 ÷ 10,521 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. Lafayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lafayette 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/lafayette-county