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2019 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1414th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2019
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 21, 2019 21:00 | June 24, 2019 04:30 | 2d 7h | 4,851 | 81K |
| 2 | September 18, 2019 03:15 | September 18, 2019 10:15 | 7h | 3,263 | 1,730 |
| 3 | May 13, 2019 12:30 | May 13, 2019 12:45 | 15m | 2,368 | 592 |
| 4 | April 23, 2019 17:30 | April 23, 2019 17:45 | 15m | 1,804 | 451 |
| 5 | June 19, 2019 17:30 | June 20, 2019 08:30 | 15h | 1,692 | 3,460 |
| 6 | May 30, 2019 11:45 | May 31, 2019 00:45 | 13h | 989 | 589 |
| 7 | December 21, 2019 13:15 | December 21, 2019 16:15 | 3h | 953 | 2,348 |
| 8 | January 23, 2019 16:30 | January 24, 2019 12:00 | 19h 30m | 849 | 723 |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 08:15 | February 24, 2019 17:45 | 9h 30m | 747 | 903 |
| 10 | April 25, 2019 09:30 | April 25, 2019 11:00 | 1h 30m | 725 | 906 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 49 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2019, 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 95% of Missouri's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/missouri/cape-girardeau-county