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2018 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Missouri average 1.7 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 96 Missouri counties and 2354th 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 Cole 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 | April 3, 2018 07:00 | April 3, 2018 15:00 | 8h | 2,187 | 8,378 |
| 2 | December 18, 2018 21:15 | December 19, 2018 04:15 | 7h | 2,068 | 3,905 |
| 3 | March 11, 2018 15:00 | March 11, 2018 18:00 | 3h | 2,066 | 2,658 |
| 4 | September 7, 2018 16:45 | September 7, 2018 19:15 | 2h 30m | 1,459 | 851 |
| 5 | October 7, 2018 15:45 | October 7, 2018 22:15 | 6h 30m | 1,313 | 1,175 |
| 6 | September 8, 2018 16:00 | September 8, 2018 23:45 | 7h 45m | 1,305 | 1,134 |
| 7 | October 17, 2018 13:30 | October 17, 2018 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,268 | 671 |
| 8 | December 27, 2018 14:45 | December 27, 2018 15:30 | 45m | 909 | 455 |
| 9 | September 30, 2018 13:15 | September 30, 2018 14:45 | 1h 30m | 868 | 1,302 |
| 10 | February 20, 2018 16:30 | February 20, 2018 18:15 | 1h 45m | 685 | 857 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 28 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 Cole 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 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2018 | 81 min | 0.64 | 62 min | 0.60 |
| 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 80% of Missouri's customers in 2018; 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, 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/cole-county