County annual report · FIPS 29015
2024 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1140th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 7, 2024 04:30 | May 7, 2024 21:30 | 17h | 2,179 | 7,215 |
| 2 | May 21, 2024 11:30 | May 22, 2024 16:45 | 1d 5h | 1,857 | 2,640 |
| 3 | June 14, 2024 05:00 | June 15, 2024 04:15 | 23h 15m | 1,654 | 6,622 |
| 4 | April 16, 2024 15:30 | April 17, 2024 14:00 | 22h 30m | 1,648 | 4,002 |
| 5 | July 22, 2024 19:45 | July 22, 2024 21:15 | 1h 30m | 1,489 | 1,822 |
| 6 | September 10, 2024 13:45 | September 10, 2024 17:45 | 4h | 729 | 2,735 |
| 7 | June 9, 2024 00:45 | June 10, 2024 15:30 | 1d 14h | 635 | 4,827 |
| 8 | November 3, 2024 20:00 | November 4, 2024 20:45 | 1d | 618 | 1,228 |
| 9 | August 9, 2024 18:15 | August 9, 2024 18:30 | 15m | 517 | 129 |
| 10 | April 18, 2024 16:30 | April 18, 2024 17:30 | 1h | 491 | 305 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 34 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 Missouri West | 2024 | 5.1 hrs | 1.85 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.1 hrs | 0.84 | 3.1 hrs | 0.79 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.72 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.89 | 83 min | 0.81 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MO annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/missouri/benton-county