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2025 Howard County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Howard County, MO went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Missouri average 8.9 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1515th 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 Howard 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 | October 15, 2025 13:45 | October 15, 2025 15:15 | 1h 30m | 2,708 | 678 |
| 2 | June 3, 2025 21:45 | June 4, 2025 21:15 | 23h 30m | 983 | 8,401 |
| 3 | March 5, 2025 10:15 | March 5, 2025 17:45 | 7h 30m | 582 | 1,527 |
| 4 | July 17, 2025 01:15 | July 17, 2025 20:45 | 19h 30m | 383 | 2,116 |
| 5 | June 30, 2025 16:00 | June 30, 2025 17:30 | 1h 30m | 351 | 527 |
| 6 | November 29, 2025 13:15 | November 29, 2025 17:00 | 3h 45m | 351 | 276 |
| 7 | June 23, 2025 18:00 | June 23, 2025 20:45 | 2h 45m | 347 | 609 |
| 8 | March 14, 2025 20:45 | March 15, 2025 02:15 | 5h 30m | 212 | 504 |
| 9 | August 10, 2025 17:15 | August 11, 2025 02:00 | 8h 45m | 212 | 300 |
| 10 | September 19, 2025 00:30 | September 19, 2025 05:00 | 4h 30m | 165 | 357 |
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 Howard 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 |
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.77 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Boone Electric Coop | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 0.69 | 50 min | 0.49 |
| Howard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fayette - (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 ÷ 4,125 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county