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2025 Barton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Barton County, MO went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Missouri average 8.9 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1571st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barton County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 19, 2025 14:30 | March 19, 2025 19:45 | 5h 15m | 1,050 | 1,064 |
| 2 | April 20, 2025 19:45 | April 21, 2025 12:45 | 17h | 753 | 2,879 |
| 3 | March 5, 2025 09:30 | March 5, 2025 16:15 | 6h 45m | 490 | 579 |
| 4 | March 5, 2025 17:00 | March 5, 2025 17:30 | 30m | 486 | 243 |
| 5 | April 2, 2025 09:30 | April 3, 2025 03:30 | 18h | 389 | 2,952 |
| 6 | May 19, 2025 23:30 | May 21, 2025 03:00 | 1d 3h | 232 | 2,730 |
| 7 | January 5, 2025 19:00 | January 5, 2025 23:45 | 4h 45m | 221 | 587 |
| 8 | May 18, 2025 03:45 | May 19, 2025 14:30 | 1d 10h | 151 | 706 |
| 9 | April 22, 2025 13:00 | April 22, 2025 13:30 | 30m | 146 | 73 |
| 10 | August 6, 2025 13:00 | August 6, 2025 17:45 | 4h 45m | 135 | 571 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Barton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2024 | 9.1 hrs | 1.95 | 1.9 hrs | 0.98 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lamar - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Liberal - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mindenmines - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,120 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. Barton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barton County, MO annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/missouri/barton-county