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2025 Hickory County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Hickory County, MO went without power for an average of 17.1 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Missouri average 8.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 431st 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 Hickory 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 | February 2, 2025 20:45 | February 3, 2025 02:00 | 5h 15m | 1,819 | 7,902 |
| 2 | March 14, 2025 19:45 | March 15, 2025 04:30 | 8h 45m | 1,592 | 7,263 |
| 3 | July 29, 2025 22:30 | July 30, 2025 09:00 | 10h 30m | 1,462 | 14K |
| 4 | November 20, 2025 08:45 | November 20, 2025 16:15 | 7h 30m | 895 | 3,741 |
| 5 | February 20, 2025 03:30 | February 20, 2025 06:15 | 2h 45m | 768 | 1,017 |
| 6 | May 6, 2025 18:30 | May 6, 2025 20:00 | 1h 30m | 739 | 928 |
| 7 | June 29, 2025 15:45 | June 29, 2025 18:30 | 2h 45m | 641 | 1,159 |
| 8 | October 20, 2025 19:45 | October 20, 2025 23:30 | 3h 45m | 587 | 736 |
| 9 | July 10, 2025 00:30 | July 10, 2025 12:45 | 12h 15m | 431 | 1,120 |
| 10 | January 10, 2025 23:30 | January 11, 2025 01:30 | 2h | 321 | 642 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 25 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 Hickory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2024 | 9.1 hrs | 1.95 | 1.9 hrs | 0.98 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.1 hrs | 0.84 | 3.1 hrs | 0.79 |
| Sac-Osage Electric 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,972 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. Hickory County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hickory 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/hickory-county