County annual report · FIPS 29015
2025 Benton County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benton County, MO went without power for an average of 33.8 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (Missouri average 8.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 152nd 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 Benton 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 | May 20, 2025 00:30 | May 24, 2025 07:00 | 4d 6h | 5,540 | 177K |
| 2 | September 5, 2025 12:45 | September 5, 2025 17:30 | 4h 45m | 1,756 | 488 |
| 3 | January 21, 2025 12:00 | January 21, 2025 21:15 | 9h 15m | 1,496 | 2,457 |
| 4 | March 14, 2025 19:00 | March 15, 2025 20:00 | 1d 1h | 1,078 | 2,779 |
| 5 | February 24, 2025 16:30 | February 24, 2025 20:45 | 4h 15m | 1,016 | 4,084 |
| 6 | August 11, 2025 23:15 | August 12, 2025 07:30 | 8h 15m | 938 | 5,376 |
| 7 | February 22, 2025 00:45 | February 22, 2025 04:00 | 3h 15m | 809 | 1,154 |
| 8 | December 8, 2025 12:15 | December 8, 2025 15:45 | 3h 30m | 783 | 2,545 |
| 9 | January 7, 2025 18:15 | January 7, 2025 20:15 | 2h | 673 | 423 |
| 10 | November 1, 2025 16:45 | November 1, 2025 19:00 | 2h 15m | 613 | 161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 42 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 Benton 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 Missouri West | 2024 | 5.1 hrs | 1.85 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.1 hrs | 0.84 | 3.1 hrs | 0.79 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.72 |
| Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.89 | 83 min | 0.81 |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,716 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county