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2018 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 1370th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 26, 2018 22:15 | June 27, 2018 23:00 | 1d | 4,350 | 35K |
| 2 | June 28, 2018 12:00 | July 1, 2018 02:15 | 2d 14h | 3,682 | 40K |
| 3 | February 3, 2018 15:30 | February 3, 2018 16:15 | 45m | 2,660 | 1,581 |
| 4 | March 29, 2018 11:45 | March 29, 2018 17:15 | 5h 30m | 1,926 | 4,562 |
| 5 | June 12, 2018 18:45 | June 13, 2018 03:00 | 8h 15m | 1,279 | 2,641 |
| 6 | November 1, 2018 08:45 | November 1, 2018 17:15 | 8h 30m | 1,126 | 3,243 |
| 7 | March 29, 2018 08:15 | March 29, 2018 10:00 | 1h 45m | 1,007 | 1,761 |
| 8 | March 30, 2018 02:30 | March 30, 2018 08:30 | 6h | 971 | 2,904 |
| 9 | August 17, 2018 07:00 | August 17, 2018 20:30 | 13h 30m | 911 | 1,961 |
| 10 | March 24, 2018 21:45 | March 25, 2018 01:00 | 3h 15m | 881 | 674 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 36 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.85 | 86 min | 0.72 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | - | 6.7 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| City of Jackson - (MO) | 2018 | 52 min | 0.84 | - | - |
| 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 80% of Missouri's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/missouri/cape-girardeau-county