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2016 Iron County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Iron County, MO went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 877th 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 Iron 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 17:00 | July 9, 2016 05:30 | 2d 12h | 4,029 | 12K |
| 2 | July 13, 2016 20:30 | July 15, 2016 23:00 | 2d 2h | 402 | 1,552 |
| 3 | December 27, 2016 20:45 | December 27, 2016 21:15 | 30m | 263 | 75 |
| 4 | September 26, 2016 20:00 | September 26, 2016 21:30 | 1h 30m | 261 | 290 |
| 5 | November 5, 2016 16:00 | November 5, 2016 21:30 | 5h 30m | 258 | 1,285 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 20:00 | August 11, 2016 21:30 | 1h 30m | 97 | 38 |
| 7 | August 13, 2016 01:00 | August 13, 2016 03:30 | 2h 30m | 97 | 194 |
| 8 | February 14, 2016 13:00 | February 14, 2016 17:00 | 4h | 85 | 328 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 14:15 | February 16, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 85 | 239 |
| 10 | May 26, 2016 01:30 | May 26, 2016 07:00 | 5h 30m | 76 | 224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 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 Iron 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 | - |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,709 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county