County annual report · FIPS 29051
2016 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 93 Missouri counties and 1755th 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 Cole 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 27, 2016 16:30 | July 27, 2016 18:30 | 2h | 1,348 | 688 |
| 2 | July 12, 2016 12:45 | July 18, 2016 20:15 | 6d 7h | 1,346 | 3,162 |
| 3 | June 2, 2016 20:30 | June 3, 2016 02:30 | 6h | 1,035 | 1,217 |
| 4 | July 25, 2016 05:45 | July 25, 2016 16:45 | 11h | 1,003 | 1,093 |
| 5 | May 27, 2016 02:00 | May 27, 2016 15:00 | 13h | 1,000 | 2,406 |
| 6 | September 15, 2016 22:00 | September 16, 2016 05:45 | 7h 45m | 984 | 2,586 |
| 7 | September 17, 2016 12:45 | September 17, 2016 20:45 | 8h | 946 | 809 |
| 8 | May 24, 2016 16:30 | May 24, 2016 19:15 | 2h 45m | 907 | 808 |
| 9 | August 31, 2016 23:30 | September 1, 2016 03:30 | 4h | 907 | 1,697 |
| 10 | September 9, 2016 02:45 | September 9, 2016 15:30 | 12h 45m | 907 | 5,743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Cole 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 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 0.98 | 2.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Co-Mo 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,963 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. Cole County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cole 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/cole-county