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2016 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 1564th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2016 16:15 | July 8, 2016 04:15 | 1d 12h | 4,796 | 15K |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 19:00 | February 16, 2016 20:30 | 1h 30m | 2,566 | 1,927 |
| 3 | May 27, 2016 13:30 | May 27, 2016 17:30 | 4h | 1,616 | 1,228 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 13:15 | February 25, 2016 00:00 | 10h 45m | 1,550 | 2,299 |
| 5 | August 20, 2016 18:45 | August 20, 2016 20:00 | 1h 15m | 929 | 711 |
| 6 | December 7, 2016 12:15 | December 7, 2016 15:30 | 3h 15m | 856 | 1,626 |
| 7 | July 27, 2016 00:15 | July 27, 2016 09:45 | 9h 30m | 819 | 4,800 |
| 8 | February 27, 2016 15:30 | February 27, 2016 20:00 | 4h 30m | 759 | 2,086 |
| 9 | August 15, 2016 13:30 | August 15, 2016 19:30 | 6h | 759 | 1,825 |
| 10 | September 22, 2016 00:15 | September 22, 2016 01:45 | 1h 30m | 695 | 531 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.13 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2016 | 7.4 hrs | - | 5.6 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2016 | 6.1 hrs | - | 52 min | - |
| City of Jackson - (MO) | 2016 | 47 min | 1.71 | - | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/missouri/cape-girardeau-county