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2023 Newton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newton County, MO went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 114 Missouri counties and 568th 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 Newton 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 | March 31, 2023 19:45 | April 1, 2023 04:30 | 8h 45m | 4,242 | 5,726 |
| 2 | July 21, 2023 12:00 | July 21, 2023 20:45 | 8h 45m | 4,167 | 1,816 |
| 3 | June 14, 2023 16:15 | June 14, 2023 18:15 | 2h | 3,916 | 1,454 |
| 4 | June 18, 2023 07:30 | June 19, 2023 08:30 | 1d 1h | 3,076 | 16K |
| 5 | July 31, 2023 03:45 | August 4, 2023 13:30 | 4d 9h | 2,113 | 67K |
| 6 | October 4, 2023 09:30 | October 4, 2023 13:45 | 4h 15m | 1,652 | 3,727 |
| 7 | October 3, 2023 06:30 | October 3, 2023 09:30 | 3h | 1,472 | 3,313 |
| 8 | June 3, 2023 11:30 | June 3, 2023 17:45 | 6h 15m | 1,336 | 1,069 |
| 9 | March 30, 2023 23:00 | March 31, 2023 04:00 | 5h | 1,240 | 1,861 |
| 10 | December 12, 2023 13:30 | December 12, 2023 15:30 | 2h | 1,219 | 497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 56 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Newton 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 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New-Mac 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 ÷ 12,246 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county