Power outage history
Barton County Missouri
7.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
31st most of 110 in Missouri close to the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Barton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Barton, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2019 | Tornadoes | 2,538 | 62% | 46 h | 35 h | 36k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,333 | 32% | 3.6 d | 46 h | 19k |
| Mar 6, 2021 | No storm report | 899 | 22% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 6.6k |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,252 | 30% | 8.5 h | 4.8 h | 5.6k |
| May 20, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,340 | 33% | 30 h | 10 h | 4.3k |
| Jun 11, 2022 | No storm report | 2,868 | 70% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 4.2k |
| May 6, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,234 | 30% | 16 h | 3.0 h | 3.5k |
| Jan 25, 2017 | No storm report | 3,504 | 85% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 3.2k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 389 | 9% | 17 h | 13 h | 2.9k |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Tornadoes | 753 | 18% | 9.2 h | 4.0 h | 2.8k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 232 | 6% | 20 h | 3.5 h | 2.7k |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Winter storm | 692 | 17% | 13 h | 4.5 h | 2.7k |
| Feb 22, 2020 | No storm report | 1,793 | 44% | 4.8 h | 2.2 h | 2.7k |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 194 | 5% | 15 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 19, 2017 | No storm report | 779 | 19% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 2.5k |
| May 7, 2018 | No storm report | 4,086 | 99% | 48 min | 30 min | 2.4k |
| Aug 7, 2019 | No storm report | 1,768 | 43% | 4.5 h | 30 min | 2.3k |
| Apr 11, 2022 | No storm report | 1,125 | 27% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.8k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | No storm report | 631 | 15% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 1.7k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,066 | 26% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.6k |
| Aug 4, 2023 | No storm report | 633 | 15% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 1.6k |
| Aug 16, 2018 | No storm report | 1,731 | 42% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 1.5k |
| Jun 4, 2020 | No storm report | 463 | 11% | 4.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.3k |
| Oct 6, 2021 | No storm report | 331 | 8% | 4.8 h | 5.8 h | 1.3k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 224 | 5% | 6.0 h | 6.5 h | 1.3k |
| May 23, 2021 | No storm report | 318 | 8% | 3.8 h | 16 h | 1.2k |
| May 27, 2019 | Flooding | 71 | 2% | 18 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 31, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 383 | 9% | 4.8 h | 13 h | 1.2k |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Tornadoes | 247 | 6% | 5.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.2k |
| May 23, 2022 | No storm report | 266 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 1.1k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Barton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 52%
- Tornadoes 24%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Winter storm 3.0%
- Flooding 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Barton
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Missouri territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Missouri West | Investor Owned | 184 | 104 | 1.49 | 12.1 | 309k |
| Empire District Electric Co | Investor Owned | 167 | 110 | 1.10 | 14.8 | 144k |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | MO | 208 | 205 | – | 12.9 | 133k |
| Barton County Elec Coop, Inc | MO | 405 | 155 | – | 13.2 | 85k |
| City of Lamar | MO | – | – | – | 10.6 | 21k |
| City of Liberal | MO | – | – | – | – | 3.2k |
| City of Mindenmines | MO | – | – | – | – | 2.3k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Vernon 9.8 h
- Barton (this county) 7.1 h
- Dade 6.7 h
- Cedar 2.0 h
- Jasper 1.7 h
- Crawford, KS 1.1 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 4,120 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →