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2023 Ray County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ray County, MO went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2166th 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 Ray 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 | July 18, 2023 12:45 | July 18, 2023 18:15 | 5h 30m | 3,578 | 1,053 |
| 2 | July 14, 2023 22:00 | July 16, 2023 01:00 | 1d 3h | 902 | 4,591 |
| 3 | September 19, 2023 14:45 | September 19, 2023 17:45 | 3h | 737 | 201 |
| 4 | June 2, 2023 13:15 | June 2, 2023 14:45 | 1h 30m | 729 | 183 |
| 5 | September 23, 2023 17:30 | September 24, 2023 03:00 | 9h 30m | 552 | 1,753 |
| 6 | June 30, 2023 21:45 | July 1, 2023 04:45 | 7h | 434 | 487 |
| 7 | August 4, 2023 04:45 | August 4, 2023 06:15 | 1h 30m | 384 | 576 |
| 8 | March 31, 2023 20:00 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | 21h 30m | 273 | 1,134 |
| 9 | December 11, 2023 19:30 | December 11, 2023 20:15 | 45m | 222 | 167 |
| 10 | October 9, 2023 01:45 | October 9, 2023 04:30 | 2h 45m | 200 | 550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 18 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 Ray 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 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.57 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | 2023 | 2.9 hrs | 0.91 | 72 min | 0.52 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 88 min | 1.19 | 64 min | 0.76 |
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 ÷ 8,116 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. Ray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ray 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/ray-county