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2015 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 93 Missouri counties and 1696th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 13, 2015 21:00 | June 14, 2015 11:45 | 14h 45m | 1,635 | 4,080 |
| 2 | July 2, 2015 05:45 | July 2, 2015 11:00 | 5h 15m | 1,371 | 2,147 |
| 3 | July 20, 2015 07:30 | July 20, 2015 20:30 | 13h | 1,360 | 4,610 |
| 4 | October 9, 2015 22:45 | October 10, 2015 02:15 | 3h 30m | 1,360 | 1,702 |
| 5 | June 15, 2015 00:30 | June 15, 2015 03:30 | 3h | 1,062 | 1,859 |
| 6 | August 10, 2015 06:15 | August 10, 2015 16:00 | 9h 45m | 1,041 | 4,108 |
| 7 | May 24, 2015 16:30 | May 25, 2015 23:15 | 1d 6h | 832 | 3,542 |
| 8 | October 28, 2015 03:00 | October 28, 2015 13:45 | 10h 45m | 772 | 1,429 |
| 9 | November 27, 2015 20:45 | November 27, 2015 23:45 | 3h | 684 | 899 |
| 10 | July 28, 2015 17:15 | July 28, 2015 18:15 | 1h | 407 | 407 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 24 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Cape Girardeau County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 | 1.6 hrs | 0.77 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2015 | 7.7 hrs | - | 6.0 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | - | 0 min | - |
| City of Jackson - (MO) | 2015 | 25 min | 1.40 | - | - |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| SEMO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,407 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. Cape Girardeau County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape Girardeau County, MO annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/missouri/cape-girardeau-county