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2024 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1752nd 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 Howard 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 | February 27, 2024 23:30 | February 27, 2024 23:45 | 15m | 1,123 | 281 |
| 2 | July 16, 2024 14:00 | July 16, 2024 19:30 | 5h 30m | 1,114 | 2,541 |
| 3 | August 6, 2024 13:45 | August 6, 2024 15:45 | 2h | 1,114 | 283 |
| 4 | July 8, 2024 13:15 | July 8, 2024 14:00 | 45m | 800 | 600 |
| 5 | September 9, 2024 07:15 | September 9, 2024 08:15 | 1h | 795 | 795 |
| 6 | July 3, 2024 04:45 | July 3, 2024 18:15 | 13h 30m | 610 | 1,754 |
| 7 | May 20, 2024 06:00 | May 20, 2024 10:45 | 4h 45m | 352 | 802 |
| 8 | June 14, 2024 02:15 | June 15, 2024 19:00 | 1d 16h | 317 | 3,041 |
| 9 | June 25, 2024 22:15 | June 26, 2024 06:00 | 7h 45m | 253 | 953 |
| 10 | June 5, 2024 06:30 | June 5, 2024 13:45 | 7h 15m | 210 | 531 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.77 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 0.69 | 50 min | 0.49 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county