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2024 McDonald County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McDonald County, MO went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2678th 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 McDonald 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 | August 17, 2024 01:00 | August 19, 2024 23:00 | 2d 22h | 5,323 | 124K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 08:00 | May 29, 2024 14:15 | 3d 6h | 1,693 | 25K |
| 3 | November 11, 2024 19:45 | November 12, 2024 13:15 | 17h 30m | 1,445 | 12K |
| 4 | December 2, 2024 15:15 | December 2, 2024 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1,114 | 858 |
| 5 | April 13, 2024 18:45 | April 13, 2024 23:30 | 4h 45m | 941 | 1,402 |
| 6 | June 26, 2024 11:15 | June 26, 2024 23:00 | 11h 45m | 840 | 2,661 |
| 7 | November 3, 2024 22:00 | November 4, 2024 13:15 | 15h 15m | 637 | 3,277 |
| 8 | July 5, 2024 01:15 | July 5, 2024 09:15 | 8h | 614 | 974 |
| 9 | September 8, 2024 14:00 | September 9, 2024 11:45 | 21h 45m | 565 | 12K |
| 10 | October 1, 2024 23:30 | October 2, 2024 00:00 | 30m | 544 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McDonald 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2024 | 9.1 hrs | 1.95 | 1.9 hrs | 0.98 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2024 | 18.3 hrs | 3.23 | 2.5 hrs | 1.98 |
| New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barry Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 177,579 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. McDonald County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDonald 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/mcdonald-county