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2015 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 2,963 customer-hours (Missouri average 2.2 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 93 Missouri counties and 2214th 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 Polk 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 | November 12, 2015 03:15 | November 12, 2015 04:30 | 1h 15m | 3,258 | 823 |
| 2 | September 7, 2015 18:30 | September 7, 2015 20:00 | 1h 30m | 786 | 992 |
| 3 | November 12, 2015 01:00 | November 12, 2015 02:30 | 1h 30m | 682 | 266 |
| 4 | November 1, 2015 11:30 | November 1, 2015 12:30 | 1h | 413 | 328 |
| 5 | November 11, 2015 21:45 | November 11, 2015 23:15 | 1h 30m | 217 | 228 |
| 6 | November 22, 2015 16:30 | November 22, 2015 17:30 | 1h | 69 | 52 |
| 7 | November 24, 2015 13:15 | November 24, 2015 13:45 | 30m | 56 | 28 |
| 8 | September 19, 2015 12:15 | September 19, 2015 13:45 | 1h 30m | 35 | 34 |
| 9 | September 5, 2015 12:45 | September 5, 2015 13:15 | 30m | 27 | 14 |
| 10 | September 27, 2015 15:00 | September 27, 2015 15:15 | 15m | 24 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2015 | 3.2 hrs | 2.00 | 1.8 hrs | 1.42 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,719 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county