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2016 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.1 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 93 Missouri counties and 1709th 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 Polk 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 | November 28, 2016 21:15 | November 28, 2016 22:15 | 1h | 2,170 | 2,170 |
| 2 | June 6, 2016 18:15 | June 6, 2016 20:00 | 1h 45m | 1,953 | 3,356 |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 07:45 | July 14, 2016 10:30 | 2h 45m | 1,148 | 2,723 |
| 4 | June 11, 2016 06:45 | June 11, 2016 08:00 | 1h 15m | 844 | 1,055 |
| 5 | October 30, 2016 12:45 | October 30, 2016 14:00 | 1h 15m | 641 | 801 |
| 6 | September 11, 2016 21:15 | September 11, 2016 22:30 | 1h 15m | 629 | 652 |
| 7 | July 2, 2016 17:30 | July 2, 2016 18:30 | 1h | 415 | 337 |
| 8 | August 3, 2016 06:45 | August 3, 2016 08:00 | 1h 15m | 275 | 256 |
| 9 | December 17, 2016 22:15 | December 18, 2016 01:45 | 3h 30m | 181 | 484 |
| 10 | June 15, 2016 12:30 | June 15, 2016 12:45 | 15m | 131 | 33 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 10 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.2 hrs | 1.58 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/polk-county