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2024 Vernon County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Vernon County, MO went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1229th 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 Vernon 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 | December 31, 2024 19:15 | December 31, 2024 20:30 | 1h 15m | 3,680 | 2,762 |
| 2 | October 3, 2024 13:45 | October 3, 2024 14:00 | 15m | 3,649 | 912 |
| 3 | August 20, 2024 12:45 | August 20, 2024 13:30 | 45m | 3,548 | 1,700 |
| 4 | January 14, 2024 09:30 | January 14, 2024 12:15 | 2h 45m | 3,097 | 7,835 |
| 5 | January 16, 2024 16:45 | January 16, 2024 18:00 | 1h 15m | 3,091 | 876 |
| 6 | May 20, 2024 03:45 | May 20, 2024 10:45 | 7h | 789 | 1,543 |
| 7 | March 16, 2024 09:15 | March 16, 2024 12:00 | 2h 45m | 576 | 1,258 |
| 8 | May 26, 2024 03:45 | May 27, 2024 19:00 | 1d 15h | 535 | 4,347 |
| 9 | June 29, 2024 09:15 | June 29, 2024 18:45 | 9h 30m | 527 | 2,020 |
| 10 | July 16, 2024 06:00 | July 16, 2024 06:45 | 45m | 512 | 331 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 23 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 Vernon 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 Missouri West | 2024 | 5.1 hrs | 1.85 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,584 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county