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2023 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 114th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2904th 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 McDonald 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 6, 2023 03:15 | September 6, 2023 20:30 | 17h 15m | 1,557 | 2,021 |
| 2 | January 23, 2023 22:30 | January 24, 2023 03:00 | 4h 30m | 1,300 | 2,804 |
| 3 | May 16, 2023 14:45 | May 16, 2023 15:45 | 1h | 1,300 | 393 |
| 4 | June 18, 2023 07:15 | June 19, 2023 01:15 | 18h | 1,266 | 6,053 |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 08:00 | August 6, 2023 13:30 | 5h 30m | 711 | 2,506 |
| 6 | February 8, 2023 04:00 | February 8, 2023 04:45 | 45m | 675 | 348 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 04:15 | June 29, 2023 09:45 | 5h 30m | 598 | 1,326 |
| 8 | November 11, 2023 13:00 | November 11, 2023 15:15 | 2h 15m | 568 | 637 |
| 9 | November 9, 2023 06:45 | November 9, 2023 08:00 | 1h 15m | 562 | 562 |
| 10 | December 15, 2023 20:45 | December 15, 2023 22:15 | 1h 30m | 558 | 819 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McDonald 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 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2023 | 8.4 hrs | 2.28 | 2.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county