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2024 Butler County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Butler County, MO went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 242K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1230th 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 Butler 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 26, 2024 11:45 | May 31, 2024 21:30 | 5d 9h | 9,072 | 194K |
| 2 | July 14, 2024 23:15 | July 15, 2024 00:45 | 1h 30m | 3,377 | 2,586 |
| 3 | July 4, 2024 00:00 | July 4, 2024 06:15 | 6h 15m | 1,679 | 3,202 |
| 4 | April 4, 2024 01:45 | April 4, 2024 04:00 | 2h 15m | 1,485 | 3,341 |
| 5 | November 18, 2024 14:30 | November 18, 2024 19:00 | 4h 30m | 1,065 | 837 |
| 6 | July 25, 2024 13:15 | July 25, 2024 16:30 | 3h 15m | 885 | 455 |
| 7 | December 31, 2024 08:45 | December 31, 2024 14:00 | 5h 15m | 844 | 1,578 |
| 8 | August 16, 2024 06:30 | August 16, 2024 20:15 | 13h 45m | 727 | 2,538 |
| 9 | July 9, 2024 18:45 | July 9, 2024 20:45 | 2h | 676 | 543 |
| 10 | June 26, 2024 04:30 | June 26, 2024 23:45 | 19h 15m | 634 | 2,143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 60 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.77 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Poplar Bluff - (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 ÷ 33,933 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. Butler County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county