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2017 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 106 Missouri counties and 2322nd 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 Cole 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 | December 17, 2017 15:00 | December 17, 2017 21:30 | 6h 30m | 1,652 | 1,883 |
| 2 | May 2, 2017 14:30 | May 2, 2017 19:15 | 4h 45m | 1,203 | 916 |
| 3 | January 6, 2017 14:45 | January 6, 2017 18:00 | 3h 15m | 1,039 | 268 |
| 4 | December 9, 2017 17:00 | December 10, 2017 04:15 | 11h 15m | 1,034 | 419 |
| 5 | November 24, 2017 14:30 | November 24, 2017 16:15 | 1h 45m | 887 | 227 |
| 6 | July 8, 2017 03:15 | July 8, 2017 07:30 | 4h 15m | 559 | 1,249 |
| 7 | April 13, 2017 21:30 | April 14, 2017 00:30 | 3h | 495 | 880 |
| 8 | April 25, 2017 04:30 | April 25, 2017 06:30 | 2h | 402 | 454 |
| 9 | May 27, 2017 19:00 | May 28, 2017 10:30 | 15h 30m | 361 | 990 |
| 10 | November 24, 2017 21:00 | November 24, 2017 22:30 | 1h 30m | 331 | 384 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 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 Cole 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 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.07 | 3.1 hrs | 1.06 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/cole-county