County annual report · FIPS 29021
2024 Buchanan County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Buchanan County, MO went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1165th 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 Buchanan 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 | April 24, 2024 09:15 | April 24, 2024 13:45 | 4h 30m | 23,498 | 62K |
| 2 | June 26, 2024 05:45 | June 27, 2024 02:45 | 21h | 5,476 | 16K |
| 3 | April 18, 2024 08:30 | April 19, 2024 00:15 | 15h 45m | 3,822 | 5,433 |
| 4 | May 31, 2024 14:45 | May 31, 2024 15:30 | 45m | 3,638 | 2,728 |
| 5 | August 11, 2024 15:00 | August 11, 2024 17:30 | 2h 30m | 3,623 | 4,531 |
| 6 | April 16, 2024 12:45 | April 18, 2024 00:00 | 1d 11h | 2,739 | 10K |
| 7 | February 24, 2024 03:45 | February 24, 2024 05:00 | 1h 15m | 2,483 | 2,484 |
| 8 | June 19, 2024 09:00 | June 20, 2024 01:45 | 16h 45m | 2,471 | 799 |
| 9 | July 2, 2024 23:00 | July 3, 2024 20:00 | 21h | 1,673 | 3,841 |
| 10 | October 30, 2024 05:15 | October 30, 2024 07:00 | 1h 45m | 1,474 | 1,752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 63 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Buchanan 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 Metro | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 1.52 | 83 min | 0.93 |
| Evergy Kansas Central, Inc | 2024 | 5.3 hrs | 1.65 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 2024 | 5.1 hrs | 1.85 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 1.18 | 53 min | 0.76 |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Easton - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,707 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan 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/buchanan-county