County annual report · FIPS 29217
2023 Vernon County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Vernon County, MO went without power for an average of 15.9 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Missouri average 9.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 547th 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 Vernon 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 31, 2023 01:30 | August 2, 2023 04:45 | 2d 3h | 5,566 | 53K |
| 2 | December 7, 2023 17:30 | December 8, 2023 01:15 | 7h 45m | 3,646 | 2,310 |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 07:45 | September 20, 2023 11:00 | 3h 15m | 3,632 | 4,008 |
| 4 | April 7, 2023 14:30 | April 7, 2023 19:00 | 4h 30m | 3,554 | 6,131 |
| 5 | August 27, 2023 18:15 | August 27, 2023 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,097 | 1,371 |
| 6 | May 22, 2023 21:00 | May 22, 2023 22:00 | 1h | 1,084 | 606 |
| 7 | June 14, 2023 12:30 | June 14, 2023 13:45 | 1h 15m | 1,009 | 476 |
| 8 | June 28, 2023 12:15 | June 28, 2023 13:45 | 1h 30m | 996 | 974 |
| 9 | March 31, 2023 18:30 | April 1, 2023 15:15 | 20h 45m | 771 | 3,563 |
| 10 | May 2, 2023 20:30 | May 2, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 615 | 154 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 30 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Vernon 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 Missouri West | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.57 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec 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 ÷ 5,584 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county