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2017 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 106 Missouri counties and 1999th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2017
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 23, 2017 18:30 | November 23, 2017 20:30 | 2h | 3,965 | 5,784 |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 10:45 | March 3, 2017 01:15 | 1d 14h | 3,061 | 14K |
| 3 | April 21, 2017 09:30 | April 21, 2017 14:30 | 5h | 2,156 | 8,580 |
| 4 | December 13, 2017 15:45 | December 13, 2017 17:00 | 1h 15m | 864 | 433 |
| 5 | January 10, 2017 18:45 | January 10, 2017 20:15 | 1h 30m | 666 | 830 |
| 6 | March 7, 2017 09:00 | March 7, 2017 23:30 | 14h 30m | 544 | 1,768 |
| 7 | November 18, 2017 19:00 | November 19, 2017 02:30 | 7h 30m | 413 | 930 |
| 8 | May 9, 2017 21:30 | May 9, 2017 21:45 | 15m | 361 | 90 |
| 9 | May 4, 2017 20:45 | May 5, 2017 08:00 | 11h 15m | 336 | 613 |
| 10 | December 18, 2017 01:45 | December 18, 2017 03:30 | 1h 45m | 296 | 517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 16 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 Cape Girardeau County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 4.1 hrs | 1.04 | 85 min | 0.68 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2017 | 7.3 hrs | - | 5.4 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2017 | 5.2 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| City of Jackson - (MO) | 2017 | 76 min | 1.39 | - | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/missouri/cape-girardeau-county